Upcoming Presentations (2025)

September 11-14 in Vancouver, BC: American Political Science Association

October 8 (online): book discussion on The Dispersion of Power with Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library (commentator: James Boyce) (information and sign-up link here)

October 24-25 in Los Angeles, CA: Reimagining Administrative Law Initiative

November 14-16 in New Orleans, CA: Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society

December 3 in New York, NY: Columbia University Political Theory Workshop

Recent Events (2024-2025)

May 30, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA: book talk on The Dispersion of Power at University of California, Los Angeles Political Theory Workshop (commentator: Blake Emerson)

May 9-10, 2025 in New Haven, CT: co-organizer of conference on Fighting Corruption: A New Toolkit for Old Challenges through Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University (conference write-up here)

April 25-26, 2025 in Montreal, QC: Political Theory In / And / As Political Science Junior Scholars Workshop (“Mobilizing Political Identity”)

April 23, 2025 in Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt Political Philosophy workshop (“Mobilizing Political Identity”)

April 4, 2025 in Charlottesville, VA: book talk on The Dispersion of Power for the Philosophy, Public Policy, and Law program at the University of Virginia

November 2024 in New Orleans, LA: book panel on The Dispersion of Power at PPE Society (commentators: Alex Guerrero, Gordon Arlen)

September 2024 in Philadelphia, PA: book panel on The Dispersion of Power at American Political Science Association (commentators: Samuel Moyn, Simone Chambers, Lucia Rubinelli, Eric Beerbohm)

May 21, 2024 in York, UK: book panel on The Dispersion of Power at University of York Centre for Political Theory (commentators: Udit Bhatia, Alfred Moore, Monica Brito Vieira)

May 20, 2024 in Lancaster, UK: book talk on The Dispersion of Power at University of Lancaster

May 17, 2024 in Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Contemporary Political Theory Workshop (“Rescuing Democracy from Oligarchic Capture”)

May 16, 2024 in London, UK: LSE Political Theory Workshop (“Acting Democratically under Clientelism”)

May 15, 2024 in London, UK: KCL Political Theory Workshop (“Acting Democratically under Clientelism”)

May 14, 2024 in Oxford, UK: Nuffield Political Theory Workshop (“Acting Democratically under Clientelism”)

May 13, 2024 in Oxford, UK: book panel on The Dispersion of Power, Oxford Critical Theory Seminar (commentators: Eniola Soyemi, Jasper Friedrich)

May 8, 2024 in Amsterdam, Netherlands: book panel on The Dispersion of Power (commentators: Enzo Rossi, James Pearson, Philip Stehr)

May 7, 2024 in Münster, Germany: University of Münster Political Theory Colloquium (“Acting Democratically under Clientelism”)

May 7, 2024 in Münster, Germany: book talk on The Dispersion of Power, University of Münster

May 6, 2024 in Hamburg, Germany: University of Hamburg Political Theory Colloquium (“Rescuing Democracy from Oligarchic Capture”)

March 28, 2024 in Vancouver, BC: Author-Meets-Critics panel on The Dispersion of Power at Western Political Science Association (commentators: Mark Warren, Afsoun Afsahi, Anna Jurkevics, Alex Kirshner)

March 8, 2024 in Princeton, NJ: Sociol Ontology and Structural Transformation Workshop at Princeton (“Social Ontology and / as Political Realism”)

February 21, 2024 in New Haven, CT: Yale Political Theory Workshop (“Acting Democratically under Clientelism”)

February 21, 2024 in New Haven, CT: book talk on The Dispersion of Power at Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies

February 9, 2024 in Columbus, OH: book talk on The Dispersion of Power at COMPAS colloquium, Center for Ethics and Human Values, Ohio State University (commentators: Naomi Scheinerman, Vladimir Kogan) (video)

January 26, 2024 in Columbia, SC: book launch event at All Good Books, sponsored by USC Humanities Collaborative

January 11, 2024 in New Orleans, LA: Author-Meets-Critics panel on The Dispersion of Power at Southern Political Science Association (commentators: Jason Maloy, Emma Stone MacKinnon, Rob Goodman, Sonu Bedi)