I‘m a historian of political thought, with a range of interest stretching from the long nineteenth century to the present. My main area of study is the interrelation between capitalism and democracy, or the question of how capitalism — here understood as a system of generalised market dependence — both enables and constrains political thinking and acting.
After finishing my BA in Politics & Philosophy at the University of Essex in 2012, I took an MPhil in Cambridge in Political Thought and Intellectual History in 2015. My 2020 doctoral dissertation at Cambridge (‘Populism and the Democracy of Producers in the United States, 1877-1925’) focused on the political philosophy of the late nineteenth-century American Populist movement.
Before my lectureship at University College, I was a Wiener-Anspach Fellow at the University of Cambridge and the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Catholic University of Leuven and Cornell.
