About
I am a historian of European ideas, intellectuals, and culture in the twentieth century. I’m particularly interested in primitivism, comparative cultural criticism, and the history of the social sciences. I am currently an Assistant Instructional Professor in the Social Sciences Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago.
At the University of Chicago, I teach courses in the history of social and political thought from the seventeenth century onward. I received my Ph.D. in History from the University of Illinois in 2021. Prior to my time at Illinois, I lectured in the History and Religious Studies Departments at California State University, Los Angeles.
I came to study the French social sciences through a love of travel. Anthropology, sociology, and prehistory took me to the same islands, countrysides, and caves I had spent the first decade of my adult life exploring. A native of Southern California, I taught high school history and literature in Pasadena for nine years. I dedicated each of these summers to traveling abroad and visiting remote regions in Europe, Asia, and Central and South America.