I teach politics at Babson College. My research focuses on atrocity and genocide studies, structural injustice, and the politics of Palestine–Israel. My writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Cultural Critique, Social Text (Palestine Now), Contemporary Political Theory, The Journal of Political Science Education, Arab Studies Quarterly, The Guardian, The Brooklyn Rail, Politics/Letters, WarScapes, AlterNet, and The Huffington Post, as well as in the edited volumes We Will Not Be Silenced (AK Press, 2017) and Peace Philosophy in Action (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
I am currently writing a book on the concept of atrocity in Western political thought. The project traces how transgressive violence has repeatedly been framed as an extra-political aberration and argues instead that atrocity has more often been a constitutive feature of political order. From antiquity through liberalism, I show how political authority has been sustained through the management, rationalization, and selective concealment of extreme violence, especially where coercion is recoded in the language of order, security, self-defense, or rights.
I am the co-author (with Tristan Husby) of Karl Marx and the League of the Just, a Reacting to the Past role-playing game currently in development for college classrooms, and a co-translator of Lex Icon (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2024) by the Portuguese writer Salette Tavares. I am also translating an anthology of essays on colonialism by the Portuguese polymath Eduardo Lourenço.
Before entering academia, I worked as a human rights advocate with the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) in the Gaza Strip and with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in London.
I am an editor at Sputnik & Fizzle, a small press that publishes work by artists, scholars, and activists.
I live in Cambridge, Massachusetts with my partner, daughter, and cat. Ⓐ
