I am an incoming Assistant Professor of Political Science at Grinnell College. I am also currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in Government in the Department of Government and Legal Studies at Bowdoin College.

I have a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University, with an emphasis on International Relations and Political Theory.  

I am a teacher-scholar with expertise in ethics, international law, migration and citizenship, human rights, and history and international organizations. I love incorporating lessons from the Improv course I took at Second City in my teaching.​​

With my current interdisciplinary research project, I want to contribute to ongoing debates on the shortcomings of current legal categories of protection for non-citizens by exploring to which extent they owe their potentialities and limits to notions of deservingness that sideline broader articulations of political responsibility. I take an ethnographic approach to the processes of construction of the categories of the stateless, refugee, and temporary protected status (TPS) through UN archival work and fieldwork with communities of rights claimants. ​