My research focuses on democratic theory and sexuality.

My current research project is on accounts of homoeroticism as a source of, and model for, democratic practices and social change in Britain around the turn of the 20th century. It shows how sexual liberationists on the British Left made innovative contributions to democratic theorizing about the political significance of desires, the nature of alienation, and the creation of institutional forms that would make a democratic way of life characterized by honesty, transparency and fellowship possible in a mass society. The project also shows how this neglected movement for sexual liberation influenced the development of the British Labour Party and leftist political theory in 20th century Britain.

I also have broad interests in the history of political thought and contemporary democratic theory, including a project on the political status of children.

I earned my PhD in Politics at Princeton University in 2023 after completing a BA at McGill University in 2017.