I am a scholar of social and political philosphy and political theorist. I write on the history of political philosophy and critical theory, broadly construed.
My forthcoming book The Prison Before the Panopticon (Harvard University Press, 2024) traces the treatment of the prison in political philosophy from Plato’s Athens to Jeremy Bentham’s London, with an eye towards our present carceral dysfunction. I am also engaged in research projects on the history of critical theory, the critique of political economy, and the structural transformation of the contemporary public sphere.
I have published and taught on the history of political philosophy from classical antiquity to the present day at Cambridge, Harvard, and Stanford Universities, and I am currently a faculty member in the Philosophy Department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Be'er Sheva/Bir as-Sab'a. My ongoing research and teaching interests include social and political philosophy from early modernity through the critical theorists, Jewish and Islamic political thought, classical philosophy, and the intersection of social and political theory.
After receiving my doctorate from Harvard’s Government Department, I was the 2019-2020 Harvard-Tel Aviv Post-doctoral Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Tel Aviv University. And, as, in 2021-22, I was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Stanford Civics Initiative, based in the Political Science Department at Stanford University, and a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Van Leer Institute’s Polonsky Academy in Jerusalem (2020-2023).
I hold a BA (Hons.) in Philosophy from Yale University (2010), and completed M.Phils in Political Thought and Intellectual History (2011) and Ancient Philosophy (2012) at Cambridge, where I was a Paul Mellon Fellow at Clare College until 2013.
I live in Jaffa.