Graduate Student Directory

Research Interests

Phenomenology, Marxism, Space and Time, Critical Theory, Philosophy of Mind, Political Philosophy, Philosophical Anthropology

Biography, Education and Training

I am an interdisciplinary philosopher working at the intersection of phenomenology, critical theory, and human geography. My research concerns the nature of experience and its relationship to politics. My dissertation considers the possibility of a Marxist phenomenology and its relevance for reposing questions of subjectivity, consciousness, and intuition today in the context of global crisis. I approach these topics in part through engagements with Hegel, Marx, Husserl, Henri Lefebvre, and Tran Duc Thao.

Together with Margath Walker, I am co-editing a special issue in Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space on the problem of space in Frankfurt School critical theory. I am also working on a monograph concerning Lefebvre's contributions to Marxist thought.

MA in Geography, University of Washington

BA in Philosophy and English, Colgate University, summa cum laude

Selected Publications

“Capital and Space,” in Audrey Kobayashi (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2nd edition. vol. 2, Elsevier, 2020, pp. 1–7.

“Time, Waste, and the City,” Antipode, vol. 51, no. 1, 2019, pp. 225–247.

“Hamburg’s Spaces of Danger: Race, Violence, and Memory in a Contemporary Global City” (with Katharyne Mitchell), International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, vol. 43, no. 5, 2019, pp. 816–832.

“A Thousand CEOs: Relational Thought, Processual Space, and Deleuzian Ontology in Human Geography and Strategic Management,” Progress in Human Geography, vol. 41, no. 3, 2017, pp. 299–320.

Public Writing:

“The Rat Maze: Capitalism and Consciousness,” Blue Labyrinths, November 10, 2020.

“The Greenhouse Effect,” Mute Magazine, February 4, 2018.

Selected Presentations

"Space and the Frankfurt School" (with Margath Walker), American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Portland March 22, 2024.

“Marxism and Lived Experience,” Historical Materialism Conference, London, November 10, 2023.

“Critique of Human Geography: Space and Praxis in Debord,” Guest lecture for Radical Political Theory, History of Consciousness Department, UC Santa Cruz, August 29, 2023.

“The Problem and Promise of Marxist Phenomenology,” Beirut Institute for Critical Analysis and Research, Summer School, Is There a Revolutionary Subject? Beirut, June 30, 2023.

“Critical Theory and the Problem of Orientation,” The American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Denver, April 25, 2023. 

“Techniques of Nearness: Benjamin and the Critique of Lived Space,” Departures and Arrivals: Space in the Frankfurt School Workshop, February 15, 2023.