Curriculum Vitae
Academic Appointments
2025 - Present
Lecturer
Saint Joseph's University
Department of Philosophy
2019 - 2024
Postdoctoral fellow & visiting researcher
University of Copenhagen
Department of Political Science
2017 - 2019
Postdoctoral research fellow
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen, Germany)
Department of Ethics, Law, and Politics
2016 - 2017
Part-time lecturer
Goucher College
Center for People, Politics, and Markets
2015 - 2017
Adjunct faculty
Towson University
Department of Political Science
Education
2015
PhD | Johns Hopkins University
Department of Political Science
Dissertation: Scales of Political Life: Space and Power Beyond the Polis
Major Field: Political Theory
Minor Field: International Relations
2007
BA | University of Texas at Dallas
Department of Political Science
Magna cum laude
Editorial Experience
2017 - 2023
Assistant editor
The Contemporary Condition
2012 - 2015
Assistant editor
Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy
Publications
Books
Fortress Power: Hostile Designs and the Politics of Spatial Control. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2025.
Affirmative Biopolitics: Collective Life, Social Power, and Resistance. Edited with Kellan Anfinson. Manchester University Press. Under contract.
Peer-reviewed articles
“The Cinematic Universe of Copaganda: World-building and the Enchantments of Policing.” Culture, Theory and Critique 64, no. 1–2 (2023): 19–34.
“Democratic Politics in Virulent Times: Three Material Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic” (with Mads Ejsing). Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory 23, no. 2–3 (2022): 398–420.
“The Necropolitical Spectrum: Political Lives of the Surplus Dead” (with Nicole Iturriaga). Human Remains and Violence 8, no. 1 (2022): 3–22.
“The Logistics of Police Power: Armored Vehicles, Colonial Boomerangs, and Strategies of Circulation.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 38, no. 6 (2020): 1138–1156.
“On Fortification: Military Architecture, Geometric Power, and Defensive Design.” Security Dialogue 51, no. 2–3 (2020): 231–247.
“Machiavelli and the Fortress City.” Political Theory 47, no. 2 (2019): 203–229.
Book reviews
"Pragmatic Environmentalism and Democratic Life.” Review forum on Cities in the Anthropocene by Ihnji Jon. City 26, no. 5–6 (2022): 1067–71.
“Book Review: The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine by Hagar Kotef.” Political Theory 50, no. 2 (2022): 367–372.
Contributions to edited volumes
“The Political Subject of Militarization: Ideology, Order, and the Security Apparatus in Museveni’s Uganda” in Militarizing More to Develop Faster? Uganda’s Difficult Choices on Governance, Human Rights, & the Economy. Eds. Sylvie Namwase, Ronald Naluwairo, Zahara Nampewo, and Ole Wæver. Makerere University Printing Press, 2023.
“Whose World is Ending?” engagée: Politics, Philosophy, Art, no. 9 (2020): 43–46.
Public Writing
“Massachusetts’ Proposed Prison Moratorium Is a First Step Toward Abolition.” Truthout. July 14, 2024.
“The Smirk of American Empire.” The Contemporary Condition. March 6, 2019.
“Thinking through Uprootedness and Emplacement.” Max Planck Institute, 2017.
“In Defense of Millennial Politics” (with Maria Adelmann). Common Dreams. November 27, 2017.
Selected Presentations
"Decarceration: An Interim Vision." Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities. 2025.
"The Cinematic Universe of Copaganda." Western Political Science Association. 2023.
“Hostile Architecture, Militarized Policing, and the Enclosure of the Urban Commons,” Danish Society for Marxist Studies & Aalborg University, Denmark. 2021.
“Democratic Fortifications: Barricades and Circulation Struggles,” International Studies Association. 2021.
“Designing Lethal Landscapes: The Necropolitics of the Border,” Western Political Science Association. 2019.
“On Fortification: Geometric Power, Defensive Design, and Military Architecture,” International Studies Association. 2019.
“Fortress Architecture,” City/Nature: Urban Environmental Humanities Summer Institute, University of Washington. 2017.
“The Slow Violence of Global Urbanization,” American Political Science Association. 2014.