About

I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies at the Pratt Institute. My research focuses on the political economy of the food system, with a particular interest in its environmental and public health impacts. Over the past few years I have been working on two major projects in this area. The first, Feed the People!, co-authored with Gabriel Rosenberg, is a book that envisions a more just and sustainable food system. The second is a monograph about the politics of American corporate meat production. My research on these topics has also been published in journals including Lancet Planetary Health, Nature-Food, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Journal of Cultural Economy, and Food Ethics. My secondary research focus is international relations, with a core interest in epistemology, truth claims, and the diffusion of ideas in global politics. I also (very sporadically) write about sport.

My writing has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, WIRED, The Washington Post, Vox, and The Wall Street Journal. I am a Contributing Editor at The New Republic.

I hold a Ph.D. and MPhil in Politics from the New School for Social Research and an MA in International Relations from Victoria University, and most recently was a Policy Fellow at Harvard Law School. Previously, I held the Connie Caplan Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University and was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the Swiss National Science Foundation. My work has been supported by a Doctoral Award and other grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), an Ira Katznelson Dissertation Fellowship from the New School for Social Research, and a Graduate Student Fellowship at the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies. I have been a Visiting Fellow at Wesleyan University, the University of California-Santa Barbara, and the Martin School at Oxford University.