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I am an Assistant Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. My research centers on Indigenous politics, race and ethnicity, nation-building, popular movements, as well as Latinx and Latin American political thought. I approach these topics via postcolonial, decolonial, comparative, historical, and archival methods in political theory. 

 

My book, A New World of Revolutions: Popular Imaginations and Movements across the Americas (forthcoming with Princeton University Press), examines the importance of hemispheric politics, discourses, and cultural production for the development of popular postcolonial movements during the Age of Revolutions (c.1770-1830). The book demonstrates that popular movements appealed to narratives of shared American emancipation to coalesce their efforts against colonial power and define the future of republican politics. In particular, I analyze the saliency of hemispheric politics among Indigenous, Pardo, Mestizo, and enslaved communities who were seeking to establish more egalitarian conditions in the postcolonial Americas. 

 

My published research has appeared in the American Political Science Review (APSR), American Journal of Political Science (AJPS), Polity, Contemporary Political Theory (CPT), International Theory (IT) and Studies in Comparative International Development (SCID). My public-facing scholarship has appeared in The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, and La Silla Vacia.

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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 objects, and visual artifacts. My courses specialize on postcolonial and decolonial theory, Indigenous political thought, Latinx and Latin American 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.