Biography
I am a DPhil student in Politics at Magdalen College, Oxford. In 2026-27, I am away at Princeton University as a William Alexander Fleet Fellow.
I have remained at Oxford to pursue the DPhil after completing the MSc in Political Theory Research. I additionally hold an MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History from Cambridge, where I first read History as an undergraduate.
Research
My research examines the ways in which the concepts of utopia and realism have been used in twentieth-century political thought and contemporary political theory.
In my current project, I trace the concept of utopia in the political thought of Judith Shklar and Richard Rorty to intervene in debates within intellectual history, utopian studies, and political theory.
More broadly, I am interested in methodological debates surrounding the study of intellectual history, as well as the relevance of historiography to contemporary politics.
Publications
Journal Articles
- ‘Canadian Idealism & the Political Philosophy of John Watson’, Collingwood and British Idealism Studies 28, no. 2 (2023): 5–33.
- ‘The Indian Constitution and the Foundation of Democracy’, Cambridge Journal of Political Affairs 2 (2021): 120–43.
Review Essays
- ‘The Future of Liberalism’, Cambridge Review of International Affairs 38, no. 5 (2025): 728–738.
- ‘Histories of Fear’, The Vital Center 1, no. 1 (Fall 2023): 74–76.
- ‘The Political Thought of Raymond Geuss’, Journal of Social and Political Philosophy 2, no. 1 (2023): 95–105.
Book Reviews
- 'Fear the Future: Dystopia and Political Imagination in the Twentieth Century', Contemporary Political Theory 25 (2026): 64.
- ‘Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber’, Contemporary Political Theory 24 (2025): 153–56.
- 'The Roman Emperor', Oxford Political Review, 28 September 2023.
- ‘An Idiosyncratic Memoir’, Oxford Political Review, 3 May 2022.
Other Essays
- 'Presentism in Intellectual History', Oxford Centre for Intellectual History, 11 October 2024
- 'Reflections on our first workshop in Edinburgh', Fail Again, Fail Better?, 8 May 2024.
- ‘The Cambridge School and the Turn to the Present’, Oxford Centre for Intellectual History, 2 March 2023.
Interviews
- 'John Dunn’, podcast episode, Oxford Political Review, 27 March 2023.
- ‘Quentin Skinner’, Oxford Political Review, 30 January 2023.
- ‘Charles Taylor’, podcast episode, Oxford Political Review, 30 January 2023.
- ‘Gregory Claeys: Utopianism for a Dying Planet’, Oxford Political Review, 25 September 2022.
- ‘Lois McNay: The Gender of Critical Theory’, Oxford Political Review, 15 May 2022.
- ‘Raymond Geuss’, video recording, Oxford Political Review, 10 April 2022.
- ‘Samuel Moyn: the Carlyle Lectures on Cold War Liberalism’, Oxford Political Review, 7 April 2022.
- ‘Jan-Werner Müller on democracy and its institutions’, Varsity, 6 July 2021.
- ‘Daisy Dixon on aesthetics and the philosophy of art’, Varsity, 4 June 2021.
- ‘Steven Pinker at the Cambridge Union: On Revolution and Conservatism’, Varsity, 8 May 2021.
- ‘Louis Menand on the American culture of the Cold War’, Varsity, 29 April 2021.
- ‘“Violence has become more fratricidal”: in conversation with Dr Kapila’, Varsity, 22 January 2021.