I work primarily in the history of philosophy and in political philosophy. In each case, my research has spanned several traditions. One recent focus of mine has been the intersection of early modern philosophy and modern German philosophy. I am especially interested in the post-Kantian era and its engagement with Spinoza, not least for issues raised at this intersection concerning the prospect of human freedom.

Currently, I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Philosophy and in Jewish Studies at Yale University, where I am pursuing a monograph project on the central notions of nature and freedom in Nietzsche and Spinoza. I was previously a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Philosophy at Princeton University.

I am co-editor of the volume Spinoza in Germany: Political and Religious Thought Across the Long Nineteenth Century, which has recently appeared with Oxford University Press.

My research has been published in venues including the European Journal of Philosophy, the British Journal for the History of Philosophy, the Goethe Yearbook, and the Blackwell Companion to Spinoza. I also have publications forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition and the Oxford Handbook of Jewish Philosophy. Please click “Publications” in the upper-right corner of this page for more information on my written work.