I am a Stipendiary Lecturer in Political Theory at Pembroke College, where I teach the history of political thought from Plato to Max Weber. 

My research at Oxford explores Benedict Spinoza's theory of war and peace, particularly in the broader context of relational theories of power. In empirical terms, I bring his philosophical insight to bear on a number of social, political and geopolitical questions. 

This work has gradually nudged my research away from exploring polities from the top-down and inside out, and increasingly towards probing them from the bottom-up and outside in. My first book attempts the former and was shortlisted for the Jacques Delors Book Prize. My second hopes to undertake the latter.