Articles

Journal Articles (Peer Reviewed)

“Why Does Possessing Standing to Blame Matter?” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 54, no. 1 (2025): 59-73. https://doi.org/10.1017/can.2024.50

Two Varieties of White Ignorance. Journal of Politics 86, no. 3 (2024): 920-933. https://doi.org/10.1086/729937

Hope and Despair in the Political Thought of David Walker. The Pluralist 19, no. 1 (2024): 14-22. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/920616

  • Awarded Joseph L. Blau Prize at Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 2023 Annual Meeting

On Plantation Politics: Citizenship and Antislavery Resistance in Douglass’s My Bondage and My Freedom. Philosophical Studies 180, no. 3 (2022): 871-91. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-022-01877-4

  • Special issue on best and most notable work from APA Pacific Division 2020/2021 meeting

Declaration in Douglass’s My Bondage and My Freedom. American Political Thought 9, no. 4 (2020): 513–41. https://doi.org/10.1086/710756.

Deliberation and Emancipation: Some Critical Remarks. Ethics 129, no. 1 (2018): 8–38. https://doi.org/10.1086/698731.

Chapters in Edited Volumes

“Sympathy in Struggle against Servitude: Maria Stewart’s Black Civic Republicanism,” in Women and the History of Republicanism. Sandrine Bergès and Alan Coffee (eds.), Oxford University Press (2026): 153-179. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197753262.003.0008

Review Essays

The Contingency of Despair. American Political Thought 12, no. 3 (2023): 453-462. https://doi.org/10.1086/725848.

Book Reviews

Review of James Davison Hunter, Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America’s Political Crisis, Yale University Press, in American Political Thought 14, no. 3 (2025): 634-638. https://doi.org/10.1086/737420

Review of Keidrick Roy, American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism, Princeton University Press, in Political Theory (forthcoming). https://doi.org/10.1177/00905917251357539

Review of Leslie M. Alexander, Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States, University of Illinois Press, in Journal of the Civil War Era 14, no. 2 (2024): 252-254. https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2024.a928946

Review of Tunde Adeleke, In the Service of God and Humanity: Conscience, Reason, and the Mind of Martin R. Delany, University of South Carolina Press, in Civil War Book Review 23, iss. 2 (2021). https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol23/iss2/11/.

Review of Keneshia N. Grant, The Great Migration and the Democratic Party: Black Voters and the Realignment of American Politics in the 20th Century, in New Political Science 43, iss. 3 (2021): 372-374. https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2021.1957315

Interviews

“Frederick Douglass’s Political Philosophy.” New Voices: Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy Season 2, Episode 6 (2022)

Public Writing

“The Fight Over Birthright Citizenship Has Always Been Political, Not Just Legal.” Time Magazine. November 12, 2025. https://time.com/7324450/birthright-citizenship-frederick-douglass/