I’m a second-year PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Connecticut, where I study political theory and public law.

My research explores key normative political philosophical concepts — e.g., autonomy, authority, equality, liberty, justice, rights, sovereignty — their historical development, and their application in environmental political theory, contemporary climate politics, and law. My recent work combines critical theory and interdisciplinarity, examining how Indigenous environmental knowledges, political thought, and legal traditions intersect with neoliberal and settler-state justice systems.

I aim to unearth ideas at the confluence of often-overlooked and understudied Native knowledges (in the Americas and globally) and emancipatory, left-libertarian social theory, with the goal of advancing democratic counters to the ascending threat of authoritarian (environmental) governance in the Anthropocene.

My other research interests include renewable energy and resource politics, political and social ecology, law and society, and judicial behavior.

See my research.