Hello and welcome! Here’s a bit about me:
I am a political theorist, writer, university teacher, ethnographer, and editor—at least by training and profession. I am also a father, animal lover, bagpiper, utopian socialist, walker, and wanna-be storyteller. I was born in Harvey, Illinois (near Chicago) in 1988. I grew up in the Chicago suburbs before moving to Baltimore, Maryland for grad school (Ph.D., Political Science, Johns Hopkins Univ., 2017). After grad school I spent three years in Tyumen, Russia (southwest Siberia) teaching, researching, and helping create a liberal arts-style university program at the University of Tyumen. I am currently completing a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Leiden University (Netherlands) where I am working on a mixed methods approach that attempts to bridge the gap between theoretically-oriented utopian studies and empirically-oriented communal studies through ethnographic fieldwork in several “utopian intentional communities.” More details can be found on my Current Research page as well as the project’s website Utopian Intent.
In addition to writing, research, and teaching, I have over 14 years of experience editing colleagues’ and students’ academic articles and essays, as well as teaching academic writing to both native and non-native writers. From 2012-2017 I served as the assistant editor for the peer-reviewed Q1 journal Political Theory. I am also a member of the Editorial Freelancers Association, the largest and oldest professional organization for freelance editors in the United States. Since 2017 I have been offering a freelance editing and writing service. If you are looking for an editor, proofreader, or writer check out my Editing & Writing Services page for more details or contact me!
In 2020, I joined with UK-based editor and academic Kirsty Kay to create The Editing Cooperative–a small collective of editors oriented toward non-native English writing academics seeking to publish in an increasingly English-privileged academy. Our aim is to try and level the playing field as much as possible for those brilliant scholars, researchers, and writers we have both repeatedly encountered outside the English-speaking world.
