ABOUT ME

I am a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago. In the past I held a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University. 

My research interests lie at the intersection of feminist political theory and Greek classical antiquity, with additional interests in democratic theory, regime typology, and classical reception studies. My first book project, titled Ruled by Women: Gynocracy in Classical Greek Political Thought, explores how figures of women's rule (gynocracy) have been used to negotiate the boundaries of democratic belonging both in classical antiquity and in contemporary alt-right spaces.

I hold a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, where I specialized in political theory. My Master’s Thesis, “Women in Corinth: Gender, Justice, and Failed Revolution in Euripide’s Medea,” won the Joseph Cropsey Prize for best Master’s thesis in political theory in 2019. Before coming to Chicago I received a B.A. in Political Science and Economics from Trinity College (CT). My research has been supported by the University of Chicago Office of the Provost of the Social Science Division and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. My writing is currently forthcoming in Polity​.