I am a political theorist specializing in political theology. My research deploys interdisciplinary methods to investigate the religious undercurrents of contemporary political phenomena. I am particularly interested in the politics of modern Israel and its relationship with the United States and with the West more broadly.

My dissertation, Save and Be Saved: A Politics of Israel and/in the West, analyzes an ethical discourse that dominated politics between Israel and the United States from 1961 through early 2025, one generally summarized with the term, “never again.” In this discourse, I argue, Israel’s existence discursively stands in for that of postwar Jewishness itself, a substitutive gesture the Israeli state eventually embraced. Drawing upon theological understandings emergent of the Pauline and early rabbinic period, the dissertation uncovers the embedded assumptions, relations of power, and theological-political implications of prefiguring Jews and the Jewish state in this way.

My second project, tentatively titled Cutting Ties: A Political Theology of Boycotts, examines the conceptual, political, and theological history of disengagement as a method of protest and social influence. Examining concepts such as herem and niddui in Judaism, and haram and takfir in Islam, the project challenges the notion that boycotts are a phenomenon of modern democracies. It, instead, paints a picture of selective disengagement as a crucial mode for construction of the collective and individual self, one that threatens and transforms relations of power.