(For a complete CV, click here.)
Appointments
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
University of Toronto Mississauga, and Graduate Department of Political Science, University of Toronto), July 2021-Present
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
University of Toronto Mississauga, and Graduate Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, July 2017-July 2021
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Vanderbilt University, July 2009-June 2017
Visiting Faculty Fellow, Society for the Humanities
Cornell University, August 2012-June 2013
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Political Theory Project
Brown University, July 2007- June 2009
Education
University of Chicago
Ph.D. in Political Science, December 2007
M.A. in Political Science, June 2003
King’s College, Cambridge University
M.Phil. in Political Thought and Intellectual History, May 2001
Wellesley College
B.A. in Political Science, May 1999
Publications
Book
An Age of Risk: Politics and Economy in Early Modern Britain. Princeton University Press. 2016.
Articles in Refereed Journals
“The Beehive and the Stew: Prostitution and the Politics of Risk in Bernard Mandeville’s Political Thought.” Polity 47 (2015): 61-83.
“The Risks of Political Authority: Trust, Knowledge and Political Agency in Locke’s Second Treatise.” Political Studies 59 (2011): 580-595.
Chapters in Peer-Reviewed Books
“Locke and Cicero on Labor, Property, and Value.” The Ciceronian Tradition in Political Theory, eds. Daniel Kapust and Gary Remer. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2021
“‘In Those Old Days:’ The Old and the Aging in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead and Home.” A Political Companion to Marilynne Robinson. Eds. Shannon Mariotti and Joseph Lane. The Political Companions to Great Authors Series. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2016.
Chapters in Edited Volumes
“Insurance.” Routledge Handbook of Commodification. Eds. Elodie Bertrand and Vida Panitch. London: Routledge, 2023.
With Constantine Vassiliou. “The Plague of High Finance in Montesquieu’s Persian Letters.” The Spirit of Montesquieu’s Persian Letters. Eds. Jeffrey Church, Alin Fumurescu, and Constantine Vassiliou. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.“Educating Gentlewomen: The Women of Locke’s Circle and Their Influence on Some Thoughts Concerning Education.” Wives of the Canon, eds. Jennifer Forestal and Menaka Philips. London: Routledge, 2023.
“The Entanglement of Profit and Loss: Risk and the Language of Insurance in Early Modern Political Thought,” Risk and Media, eds. Bishnupriya Ghosh and Bhaskar Sarkhar. London: Routledge, 2020.
J.G.A. Pocock’s The Machiavellian Moment,” The Oxford Handbook of Classics in Contemporary Political Theory, ed. Jacob Levy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Online first., 2018.
Review Essays
“Michael Frazer’s The Enlightenment of Sympathy: Justice and the Moral Sentiments in the Eighteenth Century and Today.” The Adam Smith Review 7 (2011): 210-216.
“Rousseau, Social Alienation and the Possibility of Generative Critique: A Review Essay.” C.L.R. James Journal: A Review of Caribbean Ideas 15.1 (2009): 228-234.
Other Writing
“Commercial Society,” “Bernard de Mandeville,” and “Mercantilism.” Encyclopedia of Political Theory. Ed. Mark Bevir. London: Sage Publications Ltd (2010): 236-237, 842-843, 876-878.
Honours and Awards
Faculty Fellowship, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto, , Toronto, ON, 2022-2023.
Insight Discovery Grant, SSHRC, “Reimagining Labour: The Politics of Risk and Blame in Early Modern Britain,” 2021.
Grant, Research and Scholarly Activity Fund: “Writing about Plague: Contagion and Imagination in the History of Political Thought,” UTM, 2019.
Invited Participant, Folger Shakespeare Library Research Seminar: “Debating Capitalisms,” Washington, DC, January 2015-May 2015.
Society Fellowship, Cornell University Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, August 2012-June 2013.
Summer Stipend, Research Scholar Grant Program, Vanderbilt University, 2012.
Madison-Sarratt Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Vanderbilt University, 2012.
Robert H. Birkby Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University, 2012.
Junior Faculty Teaching Fellowship, Center for Teaching, Vanderbilt University, 2011-2012.
Mellon Dissertation-Year Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2006-2007.
Horton-Hallowell Fellowship, Wellesley College, Summer 2006.
Humane Studies Fellowship, Institute for Humane Studies, Summer 2006.
Grodzins Prize Lectureship, for course “Medieval Political Thought: ca. 1250-1525,” University of Chicago, 2006-2007 (declined for Mellon).
Dissertation Teaching and Research Fellowship, Social Sciences Division, University of Chicago, 2005-2006.
Olin Center for Inquiry into the Theory and Practice of Democracy, Junior Fellowship, 2004-2005.
Joseph Cropsey Prize for Best M.A. Thesis in Political Theory and the History of Political Thought, University of Chicago, May 2003.
Graduated Magna Cum Laude, with honours in Political Science, Wellesley College, May 1999.