Biography
I took my BA in Politics and Philosophy at the University of Essex. I then went on to do the MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History at Cambridge, with Chris Bickerton (POLIS) as supervisor. My MPhil-dissertation, entitled 'Perspectives on Populism in Post-war Political Science from Pluralism to Discourse Theory, 1955-2005', was an attempt to write a conceptual genealogy of the term 'populism' in the post-war political sciences, focusing on the work of thinkers such as Ernesto Laclau, Richard Hofstadter, and Pierre-André Taguieff.
My PhD-thesis (preliminary title 'Populism and Producerist Democracy in the Late Nineteenth-Century United States, 1877-c.1896') will seek to elaborate further on the historical work done during my MPhil, focusing specifically on writing an intellectual history of the Populist movement in the late nineteenth-century United States.
Other academic interests
Additional intellectual interests are recent theoretical innovations in Marxism (in particular the so-called 'Neue Marx-Lektüre' in Germany, accelerationism) and methodological debates in contemporary political theory (Realism).
Publications
‘The Semantic Drift: Images of Populism in Post-war American Historiography and Their Relevance for (European) Political Science’, Constellations, September 2017.
‘Review Essay What is Populism? (Jan-Werner Müller) and Populism: a Very Short Introduction (Cas Mudde and Cristobal Kaltwasser): Accomplishments and Limits of the ‘New’ Mainstream in Contemporary Populism Studies’ (with Yannis Stavrakakis), European Journal of Social Theory, August 2017.
