Degree

BA, Harvard University, 1998; MA (2004), PhD (2006), Harvard University

Teaching Experience

Lecturer, Committee on Social Studies, Harvard University 2006-2009; Deep Springs College, Summers 2006, 2008; graduate student instructor, Harvard University 2000-2006

Specialties

History of political thought; the idea of the state; social theory; European political development

Professional Experience

• Visiting scholar, The Medieval Institute of the University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland, spring 2008
• Visiting scholar, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolffenbüttel, Germany,  summer 2003
• Visiting scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of European Law

Publications

• “Anti-Machiavellism as Constitutionalism: Hermann Conring’s Commentary on Machiavelli’s Prince,” History of European Ideas 37 (2011), pp. 102-112.
• “Reformation Political Thought.” CQ Encyclopedia of Political Science, edited George Thomas Kurian et al. CQ Press, 2010.
• Review of Benedicte Sère, Penser l'amitié in Pensiero Politico medievale VI (2008), pp. 117-120.
• “Civil Authority and Aristotelian Argument in Philip Melanchthon’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Politics,” in Politischer Aristotelismus: Untersuchungen zur Rezeption der aristotelischen Politik von der Antike bis zum 19. Jahrhundert, eds. Christoph Horn und Ada Neschke-Hentschke (Verlag Schwabe, Basel/Stuttgart, 2008).