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I am an Assistant Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Previously, I was a Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow in Political Science at Williams College.

 

My research centers on Postcolonial Theory, Decolonial Politics, Comparative Political Theory, and the History of Political Thought. Substantively, I focus on Indigenous politics, race and ethnicity, nation-building, popular movements, and Latinx political thought.

 

My book, 'New World' Nation-Building: Hemispheric Revolution and the Postcolonial Dimensions of American Political Thought (under review with Princeton University Press), examines the importance of hemispheric vernaculars among Indigenous, Black, and Mestizo revolutionaries  throughout the Americas. The project reconstructs the tradition of American Political Thought from the postcolonial visions of marginalized communities leveraging the language of American belonging to legitimize their demands for self-rule. My publications have appeared in the American Political Science Review (APSR), American Journal of Political Science (AJPS), Polity, and Contemporary Political Theory (CPT). My public-facing scholarship on these topics has appeared in The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, and La Silla Vacia (Bogotá, Colombia).

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I design courses that introduce students to Political Theory by situating the "Western" canon in contention with less familiar works, archival ephemera, and visual artifacts. My courses specialize on Postcolonial and Decolonial theory, Indigenous Political Thought, Latinx Politics and Political Thought, as well as studies of Race and Ethnicity. 

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My research has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, the University of Toronto, the American Political Science Association, and the Gaius Charles Bolin Fellowship at Williams College.

 

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