Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2026

A systematic overview of Engels’s work, with a particular focus on his account of materialism and dialectics and how that account shaped his writings on natural science and social history.

With Alicia Steinmetz. Theory & Event, 2026
A coauthored essay on the puzzle of why Marx never wrote about advertising, and about what his theory of capitalism nonetheless entails for how advertising should be understood, in his time and in ours.

Political Theory, 2025
A reinterpretation of Marx’s journalism on the US Civil War as a major episode in the development of his historical materialism, one which reshaped his understanding of technology, ecology, and class struggle in capitalist society.

Political Theory, 2023
A reading of Friedrich Engels’s forgotten “History of the Rifle” (1861), reconstructing his non-deterministic account of technological change and reflecting on its political significance.

New German Critique, 2023
An essay on the relationship between Engels’s philosophy of science and the Frankfurt School’s account of positivism—and on how critical theory should comprehend nature today.

New Political Science, 2022
A synoptic interpretation of contemporary impasses in the cultural politics of language, arguing that we cannot resolve debates about “linguistic violence” simply through conceptual analysis or intellectual history.

European Journal of Political Theory, 2020
An article, based on archival research, about how white Quakers in apartheid-era Cape Town struggled with the meaning of their theological-political pacifism amid the systemic injustice of their society.

Constellations, 2018
An article about gender studies and the Frankfurt School, examining how new ways of thinking about freedom and social reproduction can help us grasp the utopian dimensions of intimacy and relationality.