Thank you for your interest and welcome to my website. I am an Incite Fellow, Lindt Dissertation Fellow, and PhD Candidate at Columbia University where I teach and work on political and legal theory and intellectual history. My work has been supported by Columbia's Center for Political Economy and I have been a visiting fellow at Humboldt University's Law & Society Institute.

My research focuses on 20th century legal reform movements to ask why people eager for social transformation cling to law's norms and procedures and how they imagine their power in response to persistent inequalities.

Beyond my interest in the (im-)possibility of legal reform, I study the political strategies of social movements and the contested normative foundations of democratic institutions. 

My work explores the tension at the heart of formal law's promise of equality.