about

 

Photo credit: Peter Lemons

I am an associate professor of political science at McGill University in Montreal, and I specialize in political theory and the history of political thought.

My research is concerned with theoretical and historical questions concerning power, violence and socio-political order. I study how power and violence have been conceptualized, represented, and problematized in the history of political ideas and in public discourse.

My first book, Machiavelli and the Orders of Violence was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018.

I have research and teaching interests in the history of European political thought (early modern and modern), critical theory, the history of Marxism, contemporary political and social theory, as well as in rhetorical theory and interpretation.

I received a Ph.D. in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley, a Diplôme d’Études Approfondies in Political Philosophy and a Maîtrise in Philosophy from the Université Paris X (Nanterre), and a B.Sc. in Government and Economics from the London School of Economics.

A (more or less) current cv is available here, and my contact information is here.