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Division Social Sciences Division
Humanities Division

Department/College/Unit Politics Department
Legal Studies
Crown College

Title Lecturer

Affiliation Faculty

Areas of Expertise Politics
Capitalism
Science and Technology
Ethics

Web Site

Primary Office Location Merrill College Academic Building

Office Hours for Students/ Office Hours By appointment

Mail Stop Merrill/Crown Faculty Services

Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D., Politics,

University of California Santa Cruz, California, USA, 2024.

M.A., Politics,

University of California Santa Cruz, California, USA, 2022.

M.Sc., International Relations Theory (with Distinction),

London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom, 2016

Dissertation Title: International Security Dialectics: Contradiction and Paradox in an Era of Globalized Risk and Populist Nationalism

B.A., Philosophy,

Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 2013.

Summary of Expertise

Political Economy, Venture Capital, Emerging Technology and Disruptive Innovation, Social Theory & Philosophy, International Relations & Global Politics

Research Interests

Capitalism, Venture Capital, Finance, Disuptive Innovation, Emerging Technology

Teaching Interests

Lecturer

• Global Organization (Fall 2025)
• Law and Social Issues (Fall 2025)
• Legal Theory (forthcoming - Winter 2025)
• Citizenship in Action (forthcoming - Spring 2025)
• Ethical and Societal Implications of Emerging Technologies (Fall 2025)
• Ethics and Technology (Summer 2025)

Teaching Fellow/Instructor, University of California Santa Cruz

• Ethics and Technology (Spring 2023) (Spring 2024) (Summer 2025)
• Global Capitalism: A History of the Present (Fall 2022)
• Ethical and Societal Implications of Emerging Technologies (Fall 2021) (Fall 2025)
• US and the World Economy (Summer 2021)
• International Political Economy (Summer 2020)

Teaching Assistant, University of California Santa Cruz

• Constitutional Law (Winter 2024)
• The Politics of East Asia (Winter 2022)
• Modern Political Thought (Spring 2020, Winter 2021) US and the World Economy (Spring 2019, Fall 2020) Security, Conflict, Violence, War (Winter 2020) Ancient Political Thought (Winter 2019, Fall 2019) Keywords: Political Concepts (Fall 2018)

Awards, Honors and Grants

• 2023 Humanizing Technology Summer 2023 Mentors Fellowship, The Humanities Institute (UCSC), Summer 2023 
• 2022 Research Grant, Institutional Failure as Global Leadership: A Case-Based Study of the Present, University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), 2022-2023
• Humanizing Technology Teaching Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), The Humanities Institute (UCSC), 2022-2023 

Selected Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

• “On Contrarian Optionality: Unpacking the Strategic-Institutional Structure of Silicon Valley.” Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1080/1600910X.2025.2550269
• “Alternative Archives: Researching Politics with Chunks of Reality.” Politics 0(0). 2024. https://doi.org/10.1177/02633957241292492 (co-authored with Sarah Cheikhali, Ingy Higazy, Henry McLaughlin, Gabriela Segura, Matt Sparke, and Lucia Vitale)
• “The Rapacious Ambivalence of VC Investment: Venture Capital, Value Capture, and the Valorization of Crisis.” Finance and Society. 2024: https://doi:10.1017/fas.2024.1
• “The Necropolice-Economy: Mapping Biopolitical Priorities and Human Expendability in the Time of COVID-19”, Societies 12(2). 2022: https://doi.org/10.3390/soc12010002
• “The Never-End of History: Finding Meaning in the World Historical Moment”, Caustic Frolic 4(1). Fall 2020: New York.

Book Reviews

• “Book Review: Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?” Review of Radical Economics, 55(4). 2023: 728-732. https://doi.org/10.1177/04866134231183739
• “Book Review: Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism.” Review of Radical Economics, 0(0). 2024: https://doi.org/10.1177/04866134241247885