I'm a political theorist and historian of political thought. I work on 18th-21st c. debates about democracy, public opinion, and liberalism.
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My research interests include institutional design aimed at reinforcing elite accountability, the impact of technological changes on ideas of political participation, the relationship between means of communication and political emotions, and the invention of traditions.
My first monograph, The People's Two Powers: Public Opinion and Popular Sovereignty from Rousseau to Liberal Democracy, is out with Cambridge University Press in the"Ideas in Context" Series. [discount code for orders through CUP: TPTP2025]
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I'm working on three projects. The first, Representatives Under Control, examines conceptions of moral censorship, the imperative mandate, and recall—first in Rousseau, then during the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the independence of South American colonies in the early 19th century. A pilot article on Rousseau’s conception of the recall and its potential application today is out in the APSR.
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The second project, Politics Without Presence, explores how new technologies and economic transformations shaped European political theorists' arguments against participation through assemblies from the 18th to the 20th century and the alternatives they envisioned. A pilot article is out in Political Theory.
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The third project, Democracy Meets Propaganda, offers a transnational history (Russia, Europe, and the US, including Black political thought) of how propaganda was re-conceptualized over the 20th century—from a legitimate tool of mobilization to a threat to the public sphere.
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In 2024, I joined the Centre de Théorie Politique at the Université Libre de Bruxelles as an FNRS chargé de recherches. Previously, I held a British Academy fellowship at King's College London, taught at Brown and Yale, and earned my PhD from the University of Cambridge.