Associate Professor; Head Graduate Advisor and Admissions Chair
My research and teaching are at the intersection of legal and political thought, Middle East studies, critical theory, and colonial and post-colonial studies. One ongoing intellectual focus has been to examine how late-modern colonialism introduced juridical logics and grammars that in turn shaped modalities of political praxis, which have not only persisted into the twentieth century, but have also come to foreclose other modalities of politics in the present. The concrete terms of this closure and the possibilities that remain uncaptured by it are the two motivating threads of my work....
