PhD Student
Late Modern Europe
I am a PhD student working on 20th-century Central and Eastern European intellectual history. I am interested in how the historical and temporal frameworks of European politics have changed since the Second World War.
My work revolves around postwar Polish thought, communist-era discourses of nationalism, democracy, and human rights, and the mutually influential interactions between Eastern and Western European politics. I am drawn to thinkers like those in my current research project on the “Warsaw School of the History of Ideas,” who were caught up in the turbulent years from the Second World War to the revolutions of 1989. Members of the Warsaw School fought for communist paramilitaries as teenagers, led the implementation of Stalinism in Poland, were targeted by the secret police with wiretappings and interrogations, were forced into exile, fundraised in support of human rights defense groups, and wrote theoretical texts for the underground anti-authoritarian Polish left from abroad. I aim to root their ideas in the archives of communist institutions, universities, secret police files, personal correspondences, and networks of political organizations across Cold War Europe and North America to grasp their work and its influence on European political discourse, particularly their writings on the philosophy of history with regard to such topics as Marxism, democracy, political violence, and nationalism.
Awards and Fellowships
Research Fellow, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2023-2024.
Parker Huang Postgraduate Fellowship, Yale University, 2023-2024.
Andrew White Senior Thesis Prize for European History, Yale University, 2023.
Wolfgang Leonhard Senior Thesis Prize for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Yale University, 2023.
Dockterman Humanities Fellowship, Yale University, 2022.
Joseph F. Slifka Center Research Grant, 2022.
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Polish), 2020-2021.
Journal Articles
“‘None of it matters now:’ Leszek Kołakowski between Marx and Spinoza,” Modern Intellectual History Vol. 22, No. 3 (2025): 582-606.
Presentations
“Jürgen Habermas, Leszek Kołakowski, and the Futures Past of the European Historical Subject,” AHA Annual Meeting, January 2026.
“Roundtable on the Warsaw School of the History of Ideas,” Asynchronous Histories Summer School, University of Warsaw, September 2025. (Invited)
“Marxist Humanism and European Universalism: Contributions of the Korčula Summer Schools,” Annual Convention of the Centers for Austrian and Central European Studies, June 2025.
“The Intellectual Origins of Krzysztof Pomian’s Philosophy of History in Revisionist Marxism,” Cambridge Graduate Workshop in Political Thought and Intellectual History, March 2025.
“Leszek Kołakowski on Marx and Spinoza,” Cambridge East European History Postgraduate Workshop, December 2024.
Education
MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History, University of Cambridge (2025).
BA in History, Yale University (2023)
