I am Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Emory University. 

I received my Ph.D. in Philosophy from Northwestern University in 2022 and my PhD in Law from Humboldt University Berlin in 2015.

My research focuses on the intersection of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy and the Philosophy of Language, as well as Frankfurt School Critical Theory. In my first project, I develop a theory of ideology and its critique that identifies ideology as a problem of flawed world-disclosure: ideologiesfunction as world-disclosing, embodied interpretive schemas that guide our cognitive, affective, and conative access to reality by providing epistemically flawed background knowledge, meanings, and pre-understandings through which we interpret our (social) world in ways that perpetuate injustices. Based on this understanding of what ideologies are, I offer a hermeneutic framework for their critique that transcends the given interpretive context through counter-hegemonic disclosures.

In addition, I’m starting a second project that examines the critical role of translation in the intercultural dialogue on human rights. I’m also interested in bordering phenomena “inside” and “outside” the law and the topology of legal borders in refugee and migration law. 

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