School of Social and Political Science

Research interests

I’m a political theorist and historian of political thought interested in modern ideas about freedom and domination and their global intellectual histories, and in how these histories and ideas inform contemporary practices of resistance.

I am Co-Director of the Centre for Ethics and Critical Thought (CRITIQUE).

Research 

I’m currently writing about the history, theory, and practice of anticolonial solidarity. This aspect of my recent work is grounded in the global history of anticolonial political thought and engaged with current theoretical debates about solidarity across the global North and South.

My first book is Rousseau’s Politics of Taste (Edinburgh University Press, 2024).

Supervising

I'm accepting PhD students working widely across the history of political thought, and am interested both in projects that focus on the Western/European tradition and that engage with non-Western/world philosophies.

Teaching 

In 2024-25 I'm teaching Political Thinkers and Histories and Theories of Solidarity.

I also regularly teach Anticolonial Political Thought