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.
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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
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Jacobin (October 2025)
This article offers a critical contextualization of contemporary democratic socialist campaigns for municipal office by narrating the history of municipal socialism’s defeat by Fascism in Italy in the 1920s.
Published online and in print.
PUBLIC-FACING WORK
PRESENTATIONS
I have shared work at conferences, symposia, and workshops in the United States and Europe, including the American Political Science Association Annual Conference (2026), the Midwestern Political Science Association Annual Conference (2026), the Historical Materialism Annual Conference (2026), and the Association for Political Theory Annual Conference (2025).
CONFEReNCES and workshops
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Historical Materialism Annual Conference. London, UK. (November 5-9, 2026).
The American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Conference. Boston, MA (September 3-6, 2026).
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 Stanford University Graduate Conference in Political Theory. Stanford, CA (February 6, 2026).
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The International Machiavelli Society Annual Conference. Paris, France (December 11-13, 2025).
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The Association for Political Theory (APT) Annual Conference. Loyola University. Chicago, IL (November 6-8, 2025).
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The University of Chicago Political Theory Workshop. Chicago, IL (April 21, 2025).
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The Columbia University Graduate Conference in Political Theory. New York, NY (February 28, 2025).
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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.
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World Multidisciplinary Conference on Republics and Republicanism. Venice International University. Venice, Italy (May 24-26, 2024).
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Book Salon for Gabrielle Pedullà, On Niccolò Machiavelli (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023). The University of Chicago. Chicago, IL.
SERVICE
I have worked in a number of roles that serve the academic community, from co-coordinating the University of Chicago’s Political Theory Workshop (PTW) to organizing interdisciplinary conferences in the U.S. and Europe.
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I currently co-cordinate the University of Chicago Political Theory Workshop.
Academic Year 2026-2027
Academic Year 2025-2026
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In December 2026, I am organizing the conference Gramsci 100: Fascism, Interregnum, Democracy in Paris, France. Occasioned by the centenary of Antonio Gramsci’s arrest and imprisonment in Autumn 1926, the conference will bring together an international group of scholars to theorize the crises and possibilities of the present through a Gramscian perspective.
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In Spring 2025, I co-organized the University of Chicago Graduate Conference in Political Theory, featuring keynote addresses by Wendy Brown and Camila Vergara.