In my research, I am interested in how individuals and societies negotiate difference and sameness as we form political affinities, create cultural artifacts, and build a material world together. To undertake this work, I use resources and methods from my training in history, anthropology, and philosophy. My immediate research focus is in Cyprus, with broad interests in objects, objectivity, heritage, and world-making.
Two recent publications are representative of my research. ...
My interests are in feminist philosophy, drawn from both the analytic and continental traditions. I am particularly interested in (gendered/sexual/racial) harm’s power to produce error, ignorance, paranoia, and other deficiencies in cognitive contact with the world. Within feminist philosophy, I also have interests in the debates and discourses around abortion, transness, sexual difference, sex work, and sexual violence. I have secondary academic interests in Kantian constructivism, practical reason and knowledge, Marxism, standpoint theory, writings about the self, and theology. I have...
My works usually reside at the intersection of the philosophy of life, ethics, and political theory. I have long been interested in offering a “processual” account of freedom and its maintenance (interpreted as an “achievement”), particularly regarding how the “fragility” of human life, which defines the essence of human living beings, serves as a condition for the achieved emergence of this notion of freedom, rather than viewing freedom as a pre-given, natural quality of humans or a mere status. This further leads me to ask how this free process discloses, constitutes, and endures a...
Angel is a performance artist and researcher, holding a BA in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania. Their research-practice concerns violence, land, performance, sovereignty-autonomy, communal governance, and trans life, amongst other thematics.
Angel’s lines of inquiry largely regard forms & relations which reproduce and resist relations of capitalism, seeking to think with struggles which trouble our dominant modes of being, knowing, and practice. Drawing on Sylvia Wynter, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Denise Ferreira da Silva,...
