I am a Ph.D. candidate in political theory at Columbia University. My research interests are in the history of political, economic, and legal thought, as well as ethical, democratic, and oligarchy theory.

My dissertation, entitled The Monopoly Question: Corporations & 'Economic' Constitution in Early Modern England, examines the intellectual history of monopoly power. By digging beneath the late 18th century's bifurcation of the 'economic' from the 'political,' the project seeks to excavate grievances and arguments against monopoly institutions that operate on a distinctly moral-political register. In addition to more familiar economic arguments about price, output, efficiency, and innovation, we arrive to anti-monopoly arguments built on ideas about individual rights, popular sovereignty, public authority, and democratic equality. These languages and logics have become less familiar to us today, but help to reframe contemporary debates in democratic theory, oligarchy theory, and competition law.

Archival research for my dissertation has generously been funded by the Columbia Center for Political Economy and Columbia Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy. In 2025, I received the Giancarlo Doria Prize for my paper, “Levelling Monsters: Monopoly, Rights, and Public Authority,” which is forthcoming in Modern Intellectual History. Prior to enrolling at Columbia, I served as a paralegal specialist at the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, where I reviewed merger filings and contributed to the U.S. v. Google litigation. I hold an M.A. and M.Phil. in Political Science from Columbia University and an A.B. in Government from Georgetown University.