Recent News

Summer Residency at the National Humanities Center (June 2024)

I had the good fortune to spend some time at the National Humanities Center reading, thinking, and writing about all-things Ida B. Wells for the book. Thanks to everyone who made the residency so lovely and intellectually productive!

Ahead-of-print article available at Political Theory (September 2023)

My piece on Du Bois’ interwar thought— especially as it pertains to the role of white unreason for understanding the temporality of social change— is now available online at Political Theory. [link]

White Losses under advance contract at Oxford University Press (August 2023)

I’m very pleased to share that my second book project, White Losses: Moral Psychology and the Demands of Racial Justice is now under advance contract with Oxford University Press.

New article accepted at Political Theory (July 2023)

I’m excited that “A Matter of Long Centuries and Not Years: Du Bois on the Temporality of Social Change,” has been accepted for publication at Political Theory. Hurray!

Du Bois Center Research Fellowship (July 2023)

Very much looking forward to being a fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Center later this summer! I’m excited to poke around the archive and chat about all things Du Bois with good folks in the Pioneer Valley.

A bit of belated news (June 2023)

I’m excited to serve as the Communications Director for the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy (ASPLP), whose annual conference brings political theorists, philosophers, and legal scholars into conversation with one another on a shared theme and results in an edited volume (NOMOS).

Relatedly, I also want to mention that the newest NOMOS volume (LXV) has recently been published! Edited by Melissa Schwartzberg and Eric Beerbohm, the essays in Reconciliation and Repair explore the erosion-- and potential rebuilding-- of civic bonds in response to injustice, wrongdoing, and betrayal. Contributors include Catherine Lu, Saira Mohamed, Ryan Preston-Roedder, Roy L. Brooks, Desmond Jagmohan, Colleen Murphy, Linda Radzik, Martha Minow, and Burke A. Hendrix.

Current members of the ASPLP should receive their copies shortly. If you are not yet a member, you can order the volume here (and please consider joining!).

Ahead-of-print Polity article now available (May 2022)

My piece, “On the Uses of Acknowledgment for Injustice: Disavowal and Deflection in Baldwin’s Thought,” forthcoming in Polity later this summer, is now available online. [link]

Contesting Conformity mentioned in The New York Times (March 2022)

So excited to see a shout-out to Contesting Conformity in Jamelle Bouie’s op-ed on Tocqueville and cancel culture, “Cancel Culture in 1832 Sounded Pretty Fierce.” [link]

New article accepted at Polity (August 2021)

My attempt to think through the ambiguity of acknowledgment as a motivational source for racial justice in the writings of James Baldwin, “On the Uses of Acknowledgment for Injustice: Disavowal and Deflection in Baldwin’s Thought,” has been accepted for publication at Polity.

New article published at The Journal of Politics (April 2021)

This one has been in the works for awhile, so it’s exciting to finally see “Aristocracy in America: Tocqueville on White Supremacy” (co-authored with Trevor Latimer) published at The Journal of Politics. [link]

New Books Network podcast interview (August 2020)

I really enjoyed talking with Lilly Goren about Contesting Conformity on The New Books Network podcast! [link]

Political Theory Review podcast interview (July 2020)

Jeffrey Church recently interviewed me about Contesting Conformity on The Political Theory Review podcast. It was really fun to talk about the book’s motivations, the central arguments, and to think through some applications to contemporary politics. [link]

Contesting Conformity (Oxford UP) is in the world! (April 2020)

Hurray!

Use the code ASFLYQ6 at the publisher’s website for 30% off [link]