EDUCATION
Ph.D., Political Science, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2013
M.Phil., Political Science, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2012
M.A., Social and Political Thought, York University, 2004
Honours B.A. with High Distinction, Political Science, University of Toronto, 2001
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2022-present Doctoral Lecturer, History, Philosophy, and Political Science, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
2018–2022 Senior Research Fellow, Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College
2013–2018 Visiting Assistant Professor, Political Science, Yeshiva University
PUBLICATIONS
Books
2019 The Dialectical Self: Kierkegaard, Marx, and the Making of the Modern Subject, University of Pennsylvania Press.(Reviewed in Perspectives on Politics, Reading Religion, Søren Kierkegaard Newsletter, Choice, Aktief; Interviewed on the New Books Network, July 24, 2019; Subject of a five scholar symposium, Syndicate Network, forthcoming)
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
2022 “The Responsibility to Revolt: Søren Kierkegaard and the Politics of Love,” Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook, Vol. 27, ed. 1. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, July, 265-285.
2018 “The Ethical Necessity of Politics: Why Kierkegaard Needs Marx,” Toronto Journal of Theology, Fall, vol. 34, no. 2, 199-212.
2016 “The Causes of Bourgeois Culture: Kierkegaard’s Relation to Marx Considered,” Philosophy and Social Criticism, January, vol. 42, no. 1, 71-92.
2014 “Freedom and the Temporality of Despair,” Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook, Vol. 19, ed. 1. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, June, 217-230.
Book Chapters
2021 “Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death: Søren Kierkegaard’s Philosophy of Love,” in Political Philosophies of Aging, Dying, and Death, eds. Erin Dolgoy, Kimberly Hurd Hale, Bruce Peabody, Routledge, 2021.
2018 “Searching for a Secular God: A Prolegomena to a Political Theory of Love,” in Kierkegaard and Political Theology, eds. Roberto Sirvent and Silas Morgan, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 81-93.
2016 “Illuminating Marshall Berman: Times Square and the Democratization of Light,” in Adventures in Modernism: Thinking with Marshall Berman, ed. Jennifer Corby, Urban Research Series, Terraform Publications, 42-51.
Review Essays
2019 “Unravelling the Riddle of Money: Political Economy and the Limits of Self-Knowledge,” Syndicate Network.
Encyclopedia Entries
2015 “Society,” in Kierkegaard’s Concepts, Tome VI: Salvation to Writing, eds. Steven M. Emmanuel, et al., in Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception, Resources, vol. 15, Ashgate Publishing Co., 59-64.
Book Reviews
2013 A Vexing Gadfly: The Late Kierkegaard on Economic Matters, in Søren Kierkegaard Newsletter, ed. Gordon D. Marino, vol. 61, November, 19-21.
Public Scholarship
2022 “On the Necessity of Incivility,” The Philosophers’ Magazine, April 26.
2019 “The Luxury of Political Moderation: A lack of moral imagination can make deeply ethical actions seem like crimes,’ The Stone, The New York Times, October 30.
2018 “Kierkegaard’s Recognition: A Conversation with Jamie Aroosi,” Epoché Magazine, Issue 16, September.
2014 “Looking Beyond the Scorecard Approach to Politics,” Yeshiva University News Blog, November 7.
Dissertation
2013 The Dialectical Self: Søren Kierkegaard, Karl Marx, and the Birth of Radical Freedom
Committee: Marshall Berman (Chair), Susan Buck-Morss, James L. Marsh, Richard Wolin, Martin Beck Matustik
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, and AWARDS
2019 Professional Development Grant, Professional Staff Congress of CUNY
2017 Wilson Carey McWilliams Best Paper Award, American Political Science Association
2017 Guest Researcher, Kierkegaard Research Center, University of Copenhagen
2015 Chelst Research Grant, Yeshiva University
2013 Summer Research Fellowship, Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College
2012 Guest Researcher, Kierkegaard Research Center, University of Copenhagen
2012 Professional Development Grant, Professional Staff Congress of CUNY
2012 Summer Research Fellowship, Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College
2011 Capelloni Dissertation Fellowship, CUNY Graduate Center
2011 Doctoral Student Research Grant, CUNY Graduate Center
2011 Summer Research Fellowship, Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College
2009 Writing Fellowship, Brooklyn College
2006 Graduate Teaching Fellowship, CUNY Graduate Center
2005 Graduate Fellowship, CUNY Graduate Center
2002 Graduate Fellowship, York University
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
Panels Organized and Chaired
2018 “Love and Politics,” American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, March 28–April 1.
2017 “Søren Kierkegaard and Political Thought,” American Political Science Association Annual Conference, August 31–September 3.
2017 “Virtue Ethics and Political Thought,” American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, April 12–15.
Papers
2022 “The Limits of Reason: The Problem of Irrationality in the Public Sphere,” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, March 10-12.
2021 “Irrationality and the Public Sphere: Constructing a Post-Discursive Politics,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, September 30-October 3.
2020 “The Luxury of Political Moderation: MLK, Kierkegaard, and Political Change,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, September 10-13.
2019 “In Praise of Incivility: Rediscovering Politics in the Public Sphere,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 29–September 1.
2019 “In Defense of Ad Hominem: Incivility and the Rediscovery of Politics,” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, April 18–20.
2018 “Between Performance and Acknowledgement: Love’s Recognition and the Non-Identity of the Self,” American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, March 28–April 1.
2017 “Søren Kierkegaard and Karl Marx: Hegel Inside-Out and Upside-Down,” American Political Science Association Annual Conference, August 31–September 3.
2017 “Political Economy and the Limits of Love,” American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, April 12–15.
2016 “The Future of Human Nature: Rethinking Identity in the 21st Century,” American Political Science Association Annual Conference, September 1–4.
2016 “On Love and Artificial Intelligence: Thinking About the Post-Human in a Post-Secular Age,” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, March 23–26.
2015 “Post-Identity Humanisms: Badiou, Habermas, Zizek, and Contemporary Political Thought’s Flirtation with Kierkegaard,” American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, April 1–4.
2014 “Searching for a Secular God: Badiou, Habermas, Zizek, and Contemporary Political Thought’s Leap of Faith,” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, April 1–4.
2013 “Kierkegaard’s Critique of Consumerism in Fear and Trembling,” The Seventh International Kierkegaard Conference: Honoring the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Søren Kierkegaard, St. Olaf College, June 23–27.
2012 “Sacrificing Kierkegaard: Rescuing Kierkegaard from Adorno’s Vilification,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 30–September 2.
2012 “Democracies of Love: Kierkegaard and Marx on Loving Communities,” Søren Kierkegaard Research Center International Conference, University of Copenhagen, August 22–24.
2011 “The Case for Original Sin: Guilt and Radical Possibility in Søren Kierkegaard and Karl Marx,” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, April 20–23.
2008 “The Concept of Trauma in Kierkegaard and Freud: The Experience of God as Nervous Breakdown,” Midwest Political Science Association 66th Annual National Conference, April 3–6.
2007 “God and Trauma: The Religious Experience as Nervous Breakdown,” Northeastern Political Science Association 39th Annual Meeting, November 15–17.
2006 “Sin and Self-Deception in the Works of Søren Kierkegaard,” Northeastern Political Science Association 38th Annual Meeting, November 9–11.
INVITED TALKS
2021 “The Empathy Deficit: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Challenges to American Democracy,” Norco College, April 19.
2020 “The Responsibility to Revolt: Søren Kierkegaard and the Politics of Love,” The Julia Watkin Memorial Kierkegaard Lecture, St. Olaf College, November 12.
2020 “The Problem of Political Moderation: Søren Kierkegaard, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the Politics of Love,” Purchase College, State University of New York, June 1.
2019 “Political Moderation and the Promise of Love: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of Public Opinion,” Hostos Community College, City University of New York, December 6.
2018 “Political Theory: The Past, the Present and the Future,” Loughborough University, December 12.
2018 “The Ethical Necessity of Politics: Why Kierkegaard Should Have Been a Marxist,” Kierkegaard Circle, Trinity College, University of Toronto, November 2.
2018 “On Love and Capitalism: Searching for Stability in an Unstable World,” Leon M. Goldstein Memorial Lecture, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, April 26.
2018 “Hegel’s Children: Søren Kierkegaard, Karl Marx, and Two Tales of Freedom,” Carleton University, January 24.
2017 “The Philosophical Trinity: Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx, and the Birth of Contemporary Thought,” State University of New York at Cortland, November 9.
2017 “The Dialectical Self: Hidden in Plain Sight,” University of Copenhagen, July 17.
2014 “Trust and Transgression: The Leap of Faith of the Democratic Polis,” University of Victoria, January 27.
2013 “Kierkegaard, Marx, and the Reconciliation of Religion and Politics,” Yeshiva University, April 25.
CAMPUS TALKS
2017 “Conformity and Complicity: The Problem of Personal and Political Responsibility,” Political Science Department, Yeshiva University, October 30
2016 “Civil Rights: Past and Present,” History and Public Policy Workshop Series, Yeshiva University, December 6.
2015 “The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize: The Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet,” Yeshiva University, October 15.
2015 “Political Philosophy and Judaism,” Political Science Student Journal, Yeshiva University, April 29.
2014 “Kurt Vonnegut, Loneliness, and Antifoundationalist Religion,” Political Science Department, Yeshiva University, December 10.
2014 “The 2014 Midterms: Why They Don’t Matter, and Why This Means That They Do,” Honors Program, Yeshiva University, November 5.
2015 “Søren Kierkegaard, Indirect Communication, and the Problem of Identity,” Political Science Department, Yeshiva University, May 21.
PUBLIC TALKS
2016 “All That Is Solid Melts in the Bronx: The Legacy of Marshall Berman,” Panelist, City Lore, New York City, November 17.
2014 “Søren Kierkegaard and Science Fiction: How Love Can Help Us Navigate the Future,” Brooklyn Public Philosophers, Brooklyn Public Library Central Branch, October 14.