I am a scholar and writer based at King’s College London, where I am Senior Lecturer in Political Theory (Associate Professor) in the Department of Political Economy.

My research focuses on the theory and history of democracy. My first book, The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State (Cambridge University Press, 2020), examines the democratic potential of struggles over welfare institutions. My second book, Union: The Global History of a Movement, will be published in summer 2027 with Allen Lane (UK) and Oxford University Press (US), and will be translated into German, Italian, and Spanish. My articles have appeared in leading journals in political science, sociology, philosophy, and law, including the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Political Philosophy, and Sociological Theory. My public-facing writing has appeared in outlets such as The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Review of Books and Aeon. Since fall 2023, I am directing the Systemic Risk and the Transformation of Democracy (DERISK) project, funded by a UKRI Frontier Research Grant (successfully evaluated for the ERC Starting Grant and funded by UKRI as part of the UKRI Horizon Europe guarantee).