I’m a doctoral candidate in political science at the Graduate Center, CUNY. My research interests include American political culture, U.S. drug policy, critical “addiction” studies, and discourse analysis. My current project, “The Meanings and Uses of Collective ‘Addictions’ in U.S. Public Policy,” is an investigation of the political and psychological stakes of some of our most pressing policy debates. I argue that “addiction” indicates a policy area where cultural anxieties about individual and national self-determination are arising, and that political actors can deploy the term’s unspoken meanings in service to their policy goals.

I’m also the editorial assistant and copy editor for Polity, the journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association. I’m a former teaching fellow at Baruch College, CUNY and adjunct instructor at Brooklyn College, CUNY.

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