I am an Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the University of British Columbia. Before joining UBC, I was a Justitia Amplificata Postdoctoral Fellow at Goethe Universität Frankfurt and Freie Universität Berlin (2017-2018) and an Assistant Professor of Political Theory and Gender at the University of Amsterdam (Tenured in December 2020).

Democratic Theory and Practice: democratic innovations; role of facilitation and games in deliberation; systemic approaches to deliberation and democracy

Structural and Historical Injustice: the ongoing practices of dispossession, oppression, exploitation, and erasure in nominally democratic countries

Gender, Race, and Disability: the effects of positional inequality on democratic practices including deliberation, representation, and social movements.

Methodology: data-sensitive political theory focused on harnessing quantitative research data as well as experiments to develop more empirically grounded democratic theories; critical political theory; realist political theory

For all publications, see my Google Scholar page.

I am eager to supervise students interested in democratic theory especially deliberative democracy, intersectionality and feminism, disability, and historical injustice especially under settler colonialism.

Note to prospective students: I receive a great number of emails from prospective students and only respond to those who are interested in pursuing research in one of my areas of expertise.

Current graduate students:

Addye Susnick (PhD, 2019-) Trans Joy and Community Care

Past graduate students: 

Teaching 2023/2024:

POLI341A – Rethinking Political Concepts: Democracy, Justice, Citizenship and Speech

POLI449A/521A – Politics of Intersectionality in Theory and Practice*

Teaching 2024/2025:**

POLI345: Gender and Politics: Political Thought and Practice

POLI448D/547B: Democratic Theory*

* Undergraduates interested in the class must contact me beforehand.

** Preliminary schedule