I am a historian of political thought with research interests in the history of ideas and the politics of social movements. My research explores how political concepts have come to shape political discourse and political practice, and how political actors have come to contest the meaning of these concepts in turn. In my current book project, I trace the global history of the idea of civil disobedience. A chapter thereof is forthcoming in The Tocqueville Review.
I am a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy at Panthéon-Sorbonne University. I received my B.A. in Philosophy from the University of São Paulo and pursued an M.A. in French and German Philosophy at the Charles University in Prague, the University of Wuppertal, and the University of Bonn as an Erasmus Mundus Scholar.
I have been the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Académie française, the Maison française d’Oxford, the Leuven Institute for Advanced Studies, the Munich Centre for Global History, the Friedrich Nietzsche College of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, the Hannover Institute for Philosophical Research, the German Research Foundation (SFB Cultures of Vigilance), the French-Dutch Network for Higher Education and Research, and the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel. I have also held visiting positions at the Center for Law and Philosophy at the Université catholique de Louvain, the Ethics Institute at Northeastern University, and the Chair of Political Theory and the History of Political Thought at the University of Lausanne. Between 2015 and 2018, I was one of the members of the research project “Critical Theory and Religion” at the Goethe University Frankfurt (Institute for Social Research and Martin Buber Chair for Jewish Studies).
In addition to my research activities, I have taught history, philosophy, and political science at the Sorbonne, Sciences Po Paris, Bielefeld University, the Leibniz University Hannover, the University of Potsdam, and the Charles University in Prague, in both undergraduate and graduate programs. In the spring and summer of 2022, I was an Erasmus+ visiting lecturer at the University of Southampton and at the University of Vienna. I also taught at the University of Chicago’s Vienna Human Rights program in 2022 and 2023.
My public writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Jacobin Brasil, Nexo, World Politics Review, The Diplomat, The Philosopher, and elsewhere.
