Publications!
My work has appeared in South Atlantic Quarterly, Democratic Theory, Contemporary Political Theory, History of the Present, and Perspectives on Politics, in addition to popular outlets including Boston Review, The Nation, and the London Review of Books blog. Below please find a not-quite-but-mostly complete list of my published work. A full C.V. is available upon request.
Books
Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience & the Civil Rights Movement (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021)
Articles & Book Chapters
“To Remake the World: Frantz Fanon and Martin Luther King, Jr. on Self-Emancipation,” South Atlantic Quarterly 123, no. 3 (2024): 441-462.
“Beyond (and Before) the Transnational Turn: Recovering Civil Disobedience as Decolonizing Praxis,” Democratic Theory 9, no. 2 (2022): 11-36.
“Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Politics of Disobedient Civility,” in Cambridge Companion to Civil Disobedience, edited by William S. Scheuerman (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021).
“Civil Disobedience and Punishment: (Mis)reading Justification and Strategy from SNCC to Snowden,” History of the Present 5, no. 1 (2015): 1-30.
Symposium Essays
“A Democratic Reckoning?,” Symposium on Deva Woodly’s Reckoning, Review of Politics 86, no. 3 (2024): 246-249.
“What Comes after Rawlsianism?,” Symposium on Katrina Forrester’s In the Shadow of Justice, Review of Politics 84, no. 3 (2022): 436-440.
“Reorienting Action,” Critical Exchange on Benjamin McKean’s Disorienting Neoliberalism, forthcoming in Contemporary Political Theory (2022).
“Theorizing the Politics of Protest: Contemporary Debates on Civil Disobedience,” Contemporary Political Theory 19 (April 2020): 513-546.
“Political & Ethical Action in the Age of Trump,” Contemporary Political Theory 17, no. 3 (August 2018): 331-362.
Book Reviews & Review Essays
“Freedom to Dominate,” Dissent (Winter 2024).
Review of Tommie Shelby and Brandon Terry, eds. To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr., Journal of the History of Philosophy 61, no. 2 (April 2023): 339-341.
Review of Shamira Gelbman, The Civil Rights Lobby: The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Second Reconstruction, Mobilization 27, no. 4 (Dec 2022): 486-489.
Review of Paul Passavant, Policing Protest: The Post-Democratic State and the Figure of Black Insurrection, Perspectives on Politics 20, no. 2 (June 2022): 683-685. [Critical Dialogue]
“Direct Action: The Practical Politics of Protest,” The Nation, November 13, 2021.
“Civil Disobedience, and What Else? Making Space for Uncivil Forms of Resistance,” European Journal of Political Theory 20, no. 1 (2021): 157-164.
Review of Sina Kramer, Excluded Within: The (Un)Intelligibility of Radical Political Actors, Perspectives on Politics 17, no. 4 (December 2019): 1162-1164.
Occasional Writing
“Crossing the Line,” Peste Magazine, August 21, 2023.
“Disobedience,” The Philosopher: New Basics, Winter 2022: Planet (February 2022): 26-30.
“What’s Civil about Civil Disobedience?” HistPhil, May 11, 2021.
“To Build a New World,” The Forge Organizing, March 23, 2021.
“A Reckoning for Political Science,” Chronicle of Higher Education, January 14, 2021.
“Not the 1960s,” London Review of Books Blog, June 5, 2020.
“Another Populism,” Boston Review, April 29, 2020.
Forthcoming
“The Mississippi Runs into the Mekong: SNCC and the Internal Colony’s Collisions and Recursions,” in Social Movements and American Political Thought, eds. Max Burkey and Alex Zamalin (SUNY Press, forthcoming).
“Unruly Theories,” Iris Marion Young’s Justice and the Politics of Difference (Classics Revisited), Polity (forthcoming).
“The Problem-Space of Democratic Faith,” Symposium on Melvin Rogers’ The Darkened Light of Faith, Review of Politics (forthcoming).