I am currently researching the historical development of today's far-right conservative political philosophies in America and Europe as part of my MPhil at DPIR. I graduated with a Bachelor of Liberal Arts in Social Studies from Harvard University in 2023, where I focused on studying history, economics, and political theory.
Prior to studying at Oxford, I spent a significant portion of my undergraduate career studying the Frankfurt School — in particular, Adorno and Benjamin's theories of rightwing radicalism and historical injustice. In my last two years of undergraduate work, I pivoted to researching the intellectual history of conservative philosophy in America and Britain, rereading contemporary far-right conservative thinkers in light of their intellectual relationships to figures like Burke, Carlyle, de Maistre, Hayek, Evola, Russell Kirk, Irving Kristol, Christopher Lasch, and Alisdair MacIntyre. In summary, I sought to uncover how leftist economics could coherently fit within "conservative" frameworks put forward by key thinkers on the far-right today, such as Adrian Vermeule, Patrick Deneen, Sohrab Ahmari, and Michael Anton. I also worked on quantitative efforts to study contemporary populist movements while at Harvard, most significantly the Global Party Survey under the supervision of Prof. Pippa Norris.
At Oxford, I have narrowed my research interests to a more focused investigation of two key contemporary far-right thinkers: Adrian Vermeule and Patrick Deneen. I'm currently working to generate an intellectual genealogy of these thinker's projects, investigating how both thinkers seek to recover elements of America's late 19th-century populist tradition and Britain's late 19th-century Conservative tradition while creatively (or destructively) placing them within the context of contemporary America's unique civil and governmental institutions.
Research Specialisms: Early 20th-century Western Marxism; The Frankfurt School; the history of conservative political thought; contemporary far-right political thought.
