School of Social and Political Science

Research interests

I’m a political theorist and global historian of political thought interested in modern ideas about freedom and solidarity and their 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).

I regularly participate in the activities of the Solidarities Lab, which I Co-Founded in 2026.

Research 

My recent publications address questions of solidarity from anticolonial, antiracist, and anti-imperialist traditions of thought. These stem from ongoing research and writing on the history of anticolonial solidarity, with a view to charting the limits and possible connections between 'western' understandings of solidarity and other traditions of praxis.

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.

My current students are researching and writing about: Rousseau's ideas of moral and political freedom; and questions of solidarity between the people of Rojava in Northern and Eastern Syria and indigenous peoples globally.

Teaching 

In 2026-27, I'm convening Indigenous Political Thought and Political Thinkers

I also regularly teach Anticolonial Political Thought and Histories and Theories of Solidarity