About

   I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies at the Pratt Institute. My research examines the design, production, circulation, and consumption of everyday commodities, with a primary focus on meat and other food products. Currently, my two major projects are a monograph about the politics of American corporate meat production and a co-authored trade book envisioning a more just and sustainable food system. My research on these topics has also been published in journals including Lancet Planetary Health, Nature-Food, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Journal of Cultural Economy, and Food Ethics. I have written about the politics of food systems for publications including WIRED, The Guardian, The New Republic, The Washington Post, Vox, and The Wall Street Journal. My secondary research focus is international relations, with a core interest in epistemology, truth claims, and the diffusion of ideas in global politics, about which I have written in the academic press and in publications including Foreign Policy and The New Republic. I also (very sporadically) write about sport.

   I hold a Ph.D. and MPhil in Politics from the New School for Social Research and an MA in International Relations from Victoria University, and most recently was a Policy Fellow at Harvard Law School. Previously, I held the Connie Caplan Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University and was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the Swiss National Science Foundation. My work has been supported by a Doctoral Award and other grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), an Ira Katznelson Dissertation Fellowship from the New School for Social Research, and a Graduate Student Fellowship at the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies. I have been a Visiting Fellow at Wesleyan University, the University of California-Santa Barbara, and the Martin School at Oxford University.

Throughout 2024, I will be a Contributing Writer at Vox.