I am currently a recently tenured Associate Professor (tenure-track) in the School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs at Washington State University. My work in political theory and philosophy draws on critical, feminist, and psychoanalytic theory to address questions of power and resistance in contemporary societies. There are two questions that drive my recent research: What are the mechanisms of power that dominate and subordinate the working classes, women, and minorities in contemporary societies? What can we do to break through these mechanisms of power to create more just societies? I work at the intersection of early Frankfur…
I am currently a recently tenured Associate Professor (tenure-track) in the School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs at Washington State University. My work in political theory and philosophy draws on critical, feminist, and psychoanalytic theory to address questions of power and resistance in contemporary societies. There are two questions that drive my recent research: What are the mechanisms of power that dominate and subordinate the working classes, women, and minorities in contemporary societies? What can we do to break through these mechanisms of power to create more just societies? I work at the intersection of early Frankfurt school critical theory, feminist theory, and psychoanalytic theory to address these questions in relation to three research areas: capitalism, political guilt and democracy, and the rise of the far-right.
