PUBLICATIONS

My academic work has appeared in a number of publications, including History of European Ideas.

My public-facing work has appeared in Jacobin.

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  • Machiavelliana, vol. IV (2025)

    ABSTRACT: This article intervenes in current efforts to interpret Machiavelli’s political thought through the lens of philosophical anthropology. Engaging recent work by Christopher Holman, I develop a historically grounded theory of plebeian counterpower rooted in a negative dialectic of political rupture and institutionalization. Reading across Machiavelli’s Discourses, Histories, and Discursus, I register the contingent composition of class allegiance in the Florentine’s work, stressing the centrality of conjunctural analysis for a plebeian republican politics. The determinate character of material struggles for plebeian counterpower suggests a fusion of order and agitation in Machiavelli’s thought, as tribunitian offices depend on the latent potential of popular secession. This dynamic anchors itself in the recursive structure of plebeian memory, where enduring liberty depends on neither institutional order nor rupture per se, but on their interplay in the iterative reassertion of counterpower as an inherited principle.

  • History of European Ideas, vol. 51, no. 23 (2025)

    With John P. McCormick, Sabrina Marasa, Agneska Bloch, and Gabriele Pedullà.

    Book salon for Gabriele Pedullà’s On Niccolò Machiavelli: The Bonds of Politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023).

PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES

  • Jacobin (2025)

    This article provides a critical contextualization for contemporary democratic socialist campaigns for municipal office by narrating the history of municipal socialism’s defeat by Fascism in Italy in the 1920s.

PUBLIC-FACING WORK

PRESENTATIONS

I have shared work at conferences, symposia, and workshops in the United States and Europe, including the Association for Political Theory Annual Conference (2025) and the Midwestern Political Science Association Annual Conference (2026).

In Spring 2025, I organized the University of Chicago Graduate Conference in Political Theory, featuring keynote addresses by Wendy Brown and Camila Vergara.

CONFEReNCES and workshops

    • The Midwestern Political Science Association (MPSA) Annual Conference. Chicago, IL (April 22-24, 2026).

    • The University of Chicago Transnational History Workshop. Chicago, IL (March 11, 2026).

    • The International Machiavelli Society Annual Conference. The University of Chicago John W. Boyer Center. Paris, France (December 11-13, 2025).

    • The Association for Political Theory (APT) Annual Conference. Loyola University. Chicago, IL (November 6-8, 2025).

    • The University of Chicago Political Theory Workshop. Chicago, IL (April 21, 2025).

    • The Columbia University Graduate Conference in Political Theory. New York, NY (February 28, 2025).

    • Book Salon for Martin Breaugh and Paul Mazzocchi, eds. The Politics of Emancipation: A Miguel Abensour Reader (New York: SUNY Press, 2024). The University of Chicago. Chicago, IL.

  • World Multidisciplinary Conference on Republics and Republicanism. Venice International University. Venice, Italy (May 24-26, 2024).

    • Book Salon for Gabrielle Pedullà, On Niccolò Machiavelli (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023). The University of Chicago. Chicago, IL.