Education
University of Toronto, 2020-present
Ph.D. candidate in Political Science, Political Theory & International Relations subfields
Dissertation: "Body and Self in the Thought of Freud, Hobbes, and Thucydides"
Supervisors: Emily Nacol & Clifford Orwin
University of Toronto, 2019-2020
Master of Arts in Political Science, Political Theory Subfield
Christopher Newport University, 2015-2019
Bachelor of Arts, Summa Cum Laude
American Studies & Interdisciplinary Studies
Minors in Leadership Studies & Greek Studies
Publications
“Private Bodies, Public Lives: Learning from and Leading Through the Outbreak Narrative.” In
Exploring Personhood in Contemporary Times: From Leadership to Philosophy. Edited
by Lemuel W. Watson. Charlotte, North Carolina: Information Age Publishing, 2023.
White, Jonathan, Glenn, Daniel, and Wagner, Rachel. “We Didn’t Start the Fire: the Unknown
History of Flag Desecration.” The Federal Lawyer 66, (2017): 66-73.
Select Conference Participation
“Thomas Hobbes on the Human Body and the Politics of Preservation”
The Midwest Political Science Association, April 2025.
“Losing Ourselves: A Freudian Approach to Political Theory as Mourning”
The Midwest Political Science Association, April 2025
The Prairie Political ScienceAssociation, September 2024
“An Object of Love and Hate: Sigmund Freud on the Psychic Consequences of the Body”
The Association for Political Theory, November 2024
The Midwest Political Science Association, April 2024
“Sigmund Freud and the Human Soul: Psychoanalysis as a Continuation of the Socratic Project”
The Midwest Political Science Association, April, 2024
“The I in Oedipus: Sigmund Freud as a Reader of Ancient Texts"
The Association for Core Texts and Courses, April 2024
“The Human Body and the Limits of the Periclean Politics of Pursuit”
The International Leadership Association, October 2023
The American Political Science Association, September 2024
“The Blind Leading the Blind: Plagues, Personhood & Leadership in Saramago’s Blindness”
The International Leadership Association’s Philosophy, Religion, and Worldviews Member
Community, March 2021
Teaching Experience at the University of Toronto
Undergraduate Course Instructor, St. George Campus
POL200: Visions of the Just/Good Society, Summer 2025
POL402:What’s Love Got To Do With It? Eros & Citizenship, Summer 2024
Head Teaching Assistant, St. George Campus
POL109: Might and Right Among Nations, Winter 2024, Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Teaching Assistant, St. George Campus
POL109: Might and Right Among Nations, Fall 2023
POL200: Political Theory: Visions of the Just/Good Society, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2023-24
Teaching Assistant, University of Toronto Mississauga
POL200: Political Theory: Visions of the Just/Good Society, Summer 2022, 2022-23
POL401: Senior Major Research Paper, 2021-22
Teaching Assistant, University of Toronto Scarborough
POLb30: Law, Justice and Rights, Summer 2022
Leadership and Service
Founder & Chair, Women's Caucus Student Safety Commission, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, 2025-26
Political Theory Research Workshop Convener, University of Toronto, 2023-24, 2024-25
Political Theory Student Representative, University of Toronto, 2022-23, 2023-24
Mini-Conference Chair, "Precedent for the Unprecedented: Ancient Thought & Post-Plague Politics,” American Political Science Association, 2022
Awards and Honors
University of Toronto Fellowship, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 2020-2025
Department of Political Science Graduate Program Award, UofT, 2020-2025
Pratt & Sandbrook International Graduate Student Scholarship in Political Science, 2024
Doctoral Recruitment Award, UofT Department of Political Science, 2020
Robert W. Sledge Fellowship, Alpha Chi National Honor Society, 2019
Service Distinction Leader, Christopher Newport University, 2019
The Perkins Leadership Achievement Award for Excellence in Scholarship,
Christopher Newport University Department of Leadership and American Studies, 2019
The Colvin Prize for Best Essay in Leadership, Christopher Newport University Department of
Leadership and American Studies, 2019
Dean’s Service Award, Christopher Newport University, 2019