About

I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama’s Department of Political Science.

My research focuses on how plurality impacts world order-making as pursued by governance regimes and international institutions. My book project explores how questions of cultural diversity have been brought to the stage of UNESCO’s world heritage regime, challenging and transforming the regime’s grounds and goals, as a symptom and further entrenchment of a new global politics of culture.

Beyond my book project, I have three ongoing research streams. The first focuses on recognition as a structuring force in global cultural politics, and investigates how politics of recognition operate at the oder-governance intersection. A second stream explores how, at a time of broad global political shifts and the increased salience of cultural politics, the world heritage regime has become a conduit for the pursuit of multiple international, regional and national political projects, with the aim of providing further analytical and empirical traction onto the order/governance/plurality conjunction. The third focuses on world heritage sites themselves, and uses these concrete locations to think about how conflicting assertions of value, and visions of world order are staged in and through these internationally recognized places.

I received my B.A. (Hons) in Political Science from Vassar College in 2006, my MSc (distinction) in European Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2009 and my PhD from the University of Minnesota’s Political Science Department (2019). Prior to joining the University of Alabama, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University’s Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance (2019-2020).