I am a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. My research interests lie in the history of political thought, the political theory of empire, and Latin American political thought. I am particularly interested in Marxism and its uptake in Latin America. My dissertation project, Archaic Developmentalism: 20th-Century Andean Marxism and the Invocation of the Incan Empire, explores how José Carlos Mariátegui, Tristán Marof, and Fausto Reinaga reworked developmentalism based on their reimagination of the Incan Empire as a communist utopia. My work is currently forthcoming in Perspectives on Politics.

I received my B.A. in Government from Cornell University in 2021. At Cornell, I was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow, the recipient of the Stephen H. Weiss ’57 Memorial Scholarship, and a recipient of the American Political Science Association’s Diversity Fellowship.