About
Photo by Sameer Kahn.
I am the Nehal and Jenny Fan Raj Civics Faculty Fellow in Undergraduate Teaching and an Associate Professor in the Departments of Political Science and History (by courtesy) at Stanford University. My research focuses on early modern political theory and the history of International Relations thought.
My book, Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times (Cambridge University Press, 2018), traces the responses of three canonical political realists—Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, and Hans Morgenthau—to hopes and fears about the end of the world.
A second book manuscript, Absolving God: Hobbes’s Scriptural Politics, tracks and explains changes in Thomas Hobbes’s strategies of Scriptural argument over time.
A third book manuscript explores treason and political betrayal by examining the trial of King Charles I of England.
My other ongoing research projects explore methods of textual interpretation and the ethics and politics of catastrophe. My CV is here.