Recent Publications

• "Frantz Fanon," in the 2025 online Springer edition of the Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, edited by Ted Toadvine and Nicolas de Warren

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Upcoming Submissions

• Systems Coordinate Before We Do: Incommensurabilities in (Coalitional) Liminal Spaces

• Liminality and Terror in the Coalitional Gaze 

• “On the Institutionalization of the Master-Slave Dialectic: Understanding the ‘Hegel’ in Angela Davis’s Lectures on Liberation with Jean-Paul Sartre and Frantz Fanon." This article provides the foundation for comparing Davis, Sartre, and Fanon on their respective appropriations of Hegel, particularly in its comparison of American chattel slavery and European racial colonialism as practical systems of oppression. I have presented a polished draft of this work in May at the “Hegel(anti)colonial: The Philosophy of Angela Y. Davis” conference in Bergen, Norway. This article will help me establish a foundation for turning the dissertation into a book project in the coming years.

• “Is it a Critique? On the Notion of Existential Freedom with Angela Y. Davis, Herbert Marcuse, and Jean-Paul Sartre," to the Society of Phenomenology and Speculative Philosophy (SPEP) journal for publication by January 2026. This article addresses the common claim that Davis critiques Sartre’s notion of the slave’s “existential freedom” in her 1969 Lectures on Liberation. This essay aims to clarify Davis’s reference to Sartre in her Lectures and explain how her engagement with Being and Nothingness differs from that of her mentor, Herbert Marcuse. The implications for this essay will be crucial, as it not only suggests a key component to Davis’s conception of freedom that distinguishes her from her predecessors, but it also gives her credit for interpreting Sartre in a way that ultimately influences Marcuse. I will be presenting this piece this year at SPEP’s 63rd Annual Conference and have received the Sylvia Wynter Award for it. In the future, I plan to develop this work further into a book, providing a more comprehensive account of the concept of freedom as explored by Davis, Sartre, and Marcuse.

• “Jean-Paul Sartre and Frantz Fanon on Maintaining the Colonial System: The ‘Categorical Imperative’ Amongst Colonialists,” presented at this year’s National American Sartre Society conference. It argues that the categorical imperative functions as an unconditional maxim amongst colonialists, whose collective praxis is necessary for the maintenance of colonialism as a collective enterprise of exploitation. It develops Sartre’s claim that this maxim dictates the colonialists’ common ideology and praxis, materializing through their shared capacity for state-sanctioned violence as the normative relation between all colonialists and all colonized natives. I illustrate how Fanon addresses this in The Wretched of the Earth and explain what this imperative reveals about the perpetual vulnerability of racial colonialism as a practical system.

• “Theorizing the Pitfalls of Masculinist Ontologies of Freedom, Violence, and Resistance.” This article will build on the works of Angela Y. Davis, Hortense Spillers, Saidiya Hartman, Patrice D. Douglass, and others to critically engage with what I refer to as "masculinist ontologies" related to freedom, violence, and resistance in slave narrative literature, which continue to influence contemporary liberatory theories and projects. I have presented a polished draft of this work, first at a workshop for the Just Transformations Mellon Fellowship and again at the Africana Philosophy conference, co-hosted by The Pennsylvania State University and the University of Memphis.

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