EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Oregon, 2014
M.A., University of Oregon, 2010
B.A., University of San Francisco, 2007
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION & COMPETENCE
Applied Ethics; Responsible ML/AI & Human-Machine Interaction; Social-Political Philosophy; Critical Race Theory; Middle East Studies; Critical IR/Security Studies; ; Conflict & Dispute Resolution; History of Thought
RELEVANT PRINCIPAL APPOINTMENTS
Senior Researcher, Co-director of the Race, Gender, Class, & (in)Security research track, Security in Context (2022 – Present)
SHIFT Associate Professor of Applied Ethics (endowed chair with tenure), Hampshire College, School of Critical Social Inquiry, as well as The Ethics & the Common Good Project (2015 – 2023)
Visiting Faculty, Philosophy & Government, Franklin & Marshall College (2020 – 2022)
Researcher, The Institute for Democratic Governance, Globernance, Donostia, Euskal Herria/Spain (2013 – 2017)
Graduate Teaching Fellow, University of Oregon, Philosophy (2009 – 2014)
OTHER RELEVANT APPOINTMENTS
Co-Editor, Radical Philosophy Review (2021 – Present)
Visiting Instructor, Worcester State University (2014 – 2015)
PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)
BOOKS
2023. Co-editor, with Omar Dahi and Omnia Khalil, Insecurity Monitor Issue 1, Volume 1 (https://tadweenpublishing.com/products/insecurity-monitor-summer2023?mc_cid=8b9b09cb24)
2022. Monograph—Anti-Colonial Solidarity: Race, Reconciliation, & MENA Liberation (Rowman & Littlefield, ISBN: 978-1538141465)
2022. Co-editor, with Kris Sealey & Alfred Frankowski, The Life & Legacy of Charles Mills, special issue of Radical Philosophy Review (DOI: 10.5840/radphilrev2022252124)
2020. Guest co-editor & contributor, Strategies of Resistance, special issue of the Radical Philosophy Review (DOI: 10.5840/radphilrev20202312.)
PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES/CHAPTERS
2024. Syndicate symposium, Anti-Colonial Solidarity (https://syndicate.network/symposia/philosophy/anti-colonial-solidarity/)
2023. “Power &/in the Academy: A Roundtable Discussion,” with Sabeen Ahmed, Adam Burgos, & John Harfouch, Philosophy Today (DOI: 10.5840/philtoday20236712)
2022. ““Bringing New Life In”: Hope as a Know-How of Not Knowing,” co-authored with Elena Cuffari & Maceo Whatley, Frontiers in Psychology (DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.948317)
2022. “Enacting ought: Ethics, Anti-racism, & Interactional possibilities” co-authored with Elena Cuffari, Topoi, https://rdcu.be/cEb3P (DOI: 10.1007/s11245-021-09783-w)
2021. “The “Unknown” Middle Easterner: Post-Racial Anxieties & Anti-MENA Racism Throughout Colonized Space Time,” Critical Philosophy of Race (DOI: 10.5325/critphilrace.9.1.0048)
2018. “The Ants & the Elephant: Martial Arts & Liberation Philosophy in the Americas,” Comparative Studies in Asian & Latin American Philosophies: Cross-Cultural Theories & Methodologies, Bloomsbury Press (ISBN: 9781350007888)
2016. “A Politics of Reconciliation: Trust, Legitimacy, & the Need for Truth Commissions,” Journal for Peace & Justice Studies, Volume 25, Number 2, 2016
2016. “No Future Without Transition: A Critique of Liberal Peace,” International Journal of Transitional Justice (DOI: 10.1093/ijtj/iju029) * Translated to Turkish & Reprinted in Hafıza Merkezi (http://hakikatadalethafiza.org/en/)
2015. “Being a Target: On the Racialization of Middle Eastern Americans,” Critical Philosophy of Race (DOI:10.5325/critphilrace.3.1.0101)
REVIEW ESSAYS
2021. “Something More Than Words: A Review of (Re-)Defining Racism: A Philosophical Analysis, Alberto G. Urquidez,” Ethical Theory & Moral Practice (DOI: 10.1007/s10677- 021-10179-3)
2020. “Genealogies of Terrorism: Revolution, State Violence, Empire,” Contemporary Political Theory (DOI: 10.1057/s41296-020-00395-4)
2015. “Post-Racial Violence, Mourning, & Possible Futures: Review of The Post-Racial Limits of Memorialization,” Radical Philosophy Review (DOI: 10.5840/radphilrev201619380)
2014. “The Battle For The Future – A Review of Daniel Innerarity’s The Future & Its Enemies: In Defense of Political Hope,” Philosophy & Social Criticism (DOI:10.1177/0191453714548504)