About Me
I am a political theorist working at the intersection of normative philosophy and intellectual history. My primary area of research is liberty/freedom and its related concepts, including oppression, domination, power, agency, citizenship and nationality.
I am the author of Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics and Humanity (Princeton UP, 2021), which was shortlisted for the ECPR Political Theory Prize, European Consortium for Political Research; shortlisted for the Gladstone Book Prize, Royal Historical Society; and named as one of Bloomberg's Best Nonfiction Books of 2021. My other publications include Arendt on Freedom, Liberation and Revolution (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) as well as a number of academic papers found here or via Google Scholar. I am a co-founder and Consulting Editor of Arendt Studies.
Since October 2022 I have been based in the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, where I am a Lecturer in Philosophy. I was previously an Assistant Professor and AIAS-COFUND Fellow at Aarhus University (2019–22); EURIAS Junior Fellow at l’Institut d’études avancées de Paris (2018–19); Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Oxford (2012–18), where I was a member of Wolfson College; and a non-residential fellow at Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York City (2008–15). I was also a visiting scholar at Columbia University (2010–11), the University of Tokyo (2012), and the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College (2017).
Qualifications
DPhil (Oxford), MSc (Oxford), MA (Essex), BA (Keio), FRHistS
I studied economics and intellectual history at Keio University, Tokyo; Continental political theory at the University of Essex; and analytical political theory at the University of Oxford. I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2022.
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