Education
Ph.D., Northwestern University
M.A., Northwestern University
J.D., Northwestern University, Pritzker School of Law
B.A., Oberlin College
Research Interests
Primary: Constitutional Law; Local Government Law; Property Law; Civil Rights Law; Employment Law
Secondary: Labor Law; Race & Law; Family Law; Education Law; Professional Responsibility; Legal Theory & Jurisprudence
Professional Affiliations & Memberships
2023- Association of American Law Schools
2021- Law and Society Association
2021- Midwest Political Science Association
2020- American Political Science Association
2021-2022 Franke Fellow, Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Northwestern University
2018-2024 J.D./Ph.D. Seminar, Northwestern University
2016-2024 Critical Theory Cluster, Northwestern University 2016-Present Graduate Student Political Theory Workshop, Northwestern University
Publications
Social Mobility and the Fourteenth Amendment (in progress)
Contesting State Capture, 46 Cardozo L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2025)
Commandeering Section 5 , 94 Miss. L. J. __ (forthcoming 2025) (invited contribution to Mississippi Law School’s Judicial Symposium on the Fourteenth Amendment)
Zoning Democracy (in progress)
The Limits of Lochnerism, 32 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 929 (2024) (invited contribution to William & Mary Law School’s symposium on 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis)
Law & Order: Rethinking Marcuse’s Legacy for Abolitionist Politics, The Marcusean Mind (Eduardo Altheman C. Santos et al. eds.)
W.E.B. Du Bois, Encyclopedia of Critical Political Science (Clyde W. Barrow ed., 2024)
From Love to Care: Arendt’s Amor Mundi in the Ethical Turn, 50 Pol. Theory 939 (2022)
Community Service
2024-2025 Faculty Advisor, Law and Political Economy Group, Boston College Law School
2023-2025 1L Faculty Advisor, Boston College Law School
2022 Hurst Prize Committee Member, Law and Society Association
2021-2022 Co-Founder, Sylvia Wynter & W.E.B. Du Bois Reading Group, Program in Critical Theory, Northwestern
2020-2021 Associate Editor, Northwestern Journal of Human Rights, Pritzker School of Law, Northwestern University
2018-2024 New Student Mentor, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University
Presentations
Invited Talks & Presentations
TBD, Junior Faculty Roundtable, Boston College Law School, Newton, MA, 2025
Commandeering Section 5, Judicial Symposium on the Fourteenth Amendment, University of Mississippi Law School, Oxford, MS, 2024
Social Mobility and the Fourteenth Amendment, 2024 Works-in-Progress Junior Scholars Conference, Marquette University Law School, Milwaukee, WI, 2024
The Spirit of Caste, Race, Ethics, and Power Project, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON (available on YouTube & SoundCloud), 2024
Constitutionalizing the American Dream, Junior Faculty Roundtable, Boston College Law School, Newton, MA, 2024
De-Lochnerizing the First Amendment, AALS Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (AALS Hot Topic Program: Judicial Rights and Legislative Equality: The Future of Public Accommodations and the Polycentric Constitution after 303 Creative v. Elenis)
“There Is No Caste Here”: Civil Rights and Social Mobility, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, 2022
Frederick Douglass and the Spirit of Caste, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, 2022
Frederick Douglass’ Caste Theory of Racism, Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Other Selected Conference Participation
Social Mobility and Section 1, Constitutional Politics in the Roberts Court’s Era, 2025 Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, 2025.
The Problem of Caste in Urban Land Use Law, 2025 Junior Scholars Conference, Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, MA, 2025.
Zoning Democracy, Incubator Roundtable, 2025 American Association of Law Schools Annual\ Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2025.
Social Mobility and the Fourteenth Amendment, Summer Workshop Series, Boston College Law School, Newton, MA, 2024.
Constitutionalizing the American Dream, Junior Scholars Conference, Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, MA, 2024.
"There is No Caste Here”: Social Mobility and the Equal Protection Clause, MANCEPT Courts and Politics Workshop, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, 2023.
On Repressive and Non-Repressive Law, 15th International Critical Theory Conference of Rome, John Felice Rome Center of Loyola University, Rome, Italy, 2023.
Anna Julia Cooper’s Anti-Caste Theory of Human Rights, American Political Science Association, Montreal, CA, 2022.
Law, Rights, and Abolition: Contesting the Discursive Critique of Rights, 14th International Critical Theory Conference of Rome, John Felice Rome Center of Loyola University, Rome, Italy, 2022.
Frederick Douglass and the Spirit of Caste, Association for Political Theory, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 2021.
Republicanism, Abstract Domination, and Slavery in the Americas, The Venice World Multidisciplinary Conference on Republics and Republicanism, Venice International University, Venice, 2021.
The Politics of Anti-Caste: Rethinking the Political Limits of Equality Before the Law, Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, 2021.
The Spirit of Caste: Caste Critique and the Contestation of Racial Subjection in the United States, Graduate Student Political Theory Workshop, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2021.
The Concept of Civil Rights in the 19th Century, JD-PhD Seminar, Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law, Chicago, IL, 2020.
Invited Reponses
Response to Professor Heinrich Menke’s Critique of Rights (2020), Critical Theory in Critical Times Workshop, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2021.
Response to Professor Ainsley Lesure’s Another World is Possible: Rereading Black Skin, White Masks Phenomenologically, Graduate Student Political Theory Workshop, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2021.
Response to Professor Boris Litvin’s Biography’s Uncertain, Flickering, and often Weak Light: Arendt on Action, Audience, and Authorship, Graduate Student Political Theory Workshop, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2018.
Awards & Fellowships
2024 Edward S. Corwin Award, Best Doctoral Dissertation in the Field of Public Law, American Political Science Association
2023-2025 Drinan Scholars Program, Boston College Law School
2022-2023 University Fellowship, Northwestern University
2021-2022 Franke Fellowship, Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Northwestern University
2020-2021 Teaching Assistantship, Center for Legal Studies, Northwestern University Associate Editor, Northwestern Journal of Human Rights, Pritzker School of Law, Northwestern University
2019-2020 Law School Scholarship, Northwestern University
2018-2019 Law School Scholarship, Pritzker School of Law
2018-2024 Law and Science Fellowship, Pritzker School of Law
2018 Minar Memorial Summer Award, Northwestern University
2018-2024 Graduate Fellowship in Legal Studies, Northwestern University
2017-2018 Teaching Assistantship, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University
2016-2017 University Fellowship, Northwestern University
2013 John D. Lewis Memorial Prize for Work in Political Theory, Oberlin College
2009-2013 John F. Oberlin Scholarship, Oberlin College