I am a PhD Candidate in Political Science specializing in International Relations and Political Theory. My research and teaching combine international relations theory with critical political economy, and postcolonial studies, environmental studies, focusing broadly on the racialized and colonial constitution of capitalist global order.

At Johns Hopkins University, I am the 2023-24 Graduate Fellow for the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship and 2023-2024 Graduate Research Assistant for Historical Justice with Inheritance Baltimore.

My research has been supported by the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship, and the Program in Medicine, Science and Humanities. In 2023, I was the recipient of the Dean’s Teaching Fellowship awarded by the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. Previously, I earned my B.A. in International Studies from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY.

My research broadly examines the production of capitalist global order through the historical processes and legacies of colonialism. My dissertation project, “Colonial Worldmaking: Race, Capital, and Abolition in the Indo-Atlantic World,” advances this argument by analyzing canonical and contemporary texts in global political economy, as well as historical processes of colonial expansion, plantation production, labor control, and infrastructural construction across the British Empire in the Americas and Asia. I argue that empire—as a political-economic formation that co-articulates the logics of race, labor, and ecology through relations of coercion, discipline, and violence—is central to the production of a global order built on the liberal principles of private property, humanism, free trade, and economic development. I build on and extend the resurgent literature on racial capitalism through interdisciplinary engagement with critical international relations, postcolonial theory, settler colonial studies, and political ecology to theorize capitalist global order through an intersectional and transnational lens that appreciates overlooked social and geopolitical interconnections across the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds. I am also interested in the politics of abolition, transnational solidarity, and possibilities of anti-colonial worldmaking.

I am interested in teaching courses on a wide range of topics in international relations and political theory, including critical political economy, racial capitalism, environmental politics, and anticolonial politics. My teaching is founded on a pedagogical commitment to fostering an intersectional and global understanding of pressing and overlapping political crises. In Spring 2023, I was awarded the Dean’s Teaching Fellowship to design and teach an upper-level seminar on “Global Political Ecology: Colonialism, Capitalism, and Climate Change.” I am dedicated to creating interdisciplinary classroom environments that push students to think critically about the global interconnections between structures of oppression and, relatedly, to imagine transnational and solidaristic forms of resistance to those structures.