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I am a political theorist and Senior Fellow at the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. As part of my work for the Hayek Program, I host Virtual Sentiments, a podcast featuring conversations with scholars and practitioners reflecting on the ethics and politics of technology.
My work synthesizes the history of political and economic thought and contemporary democratic theory. My research interests also include liberalism, critical theory, and feminist theory. My work has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, Political Theory, and the Political Science Reviewer. My first book, Spectatorship and Surveillance in Liberal Democracies: Seeing and Being Seen, under contract with Oxford University Press, reinterprets the arguments of key figures in the liberal tradition, such as Adam Smith and Jeremy Bentham, to criticize how inequality and surveillance undermine personal autonomy and democracy today. In a world of citizen-spectators, the problem is less that we like to watch than that we cannot avoid being watched ourselves, by each other, by state agencies, and by private companies alike. I earned my PhD from Georgetown University's Department of Government in 2019. I also have a BA in International Relations from Tufts University, where I minored in Film Studies and Russian Language. I'm a Jersey girl, photographer, and Simpsons fan (seasons 1-10). |