I earned my Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. I am the co-editor of Marxism and the Capitalist State: Towards a Debate (Palgrave, 2023). My work has appeared in journals such as Polity, Contemporary Political Theory, Political Research Quarterly, Historical Materialism, and Science & Society. My dissertation, Discipline, Knowledge, and Critique: Marxist Theory and the Revival of the State in American Political Science, 1968-1989, was awarded the 2018 New Political Science Dissertation Award from the New Political Science section of the American Political Science Association.
I am a Lecturer in Critical Writing at the Marks Family Center for Excellence in Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, where I am also affiliated with the Department of Political Science and the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy. In addition, I am an Associate Faculty member with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.