About

I am a political theorist with research interests in the history of 19^th and 20^th century political thought (esp. Spain), focusing on topics involving imperialism and imperial loss, liberalism, democracy, the politics of reaction, and global politics. Currently, I am Profesor Ayudante Doctor (Assistant Professor) at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Political Science).

My book The Liberalism of Loss: José Ortega y Gasset in the Ruins of Empire (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) engages with Spanish liberal José Ortega y Gasset’s thought and its significance for larger debates surrounding liberalism, democracy, and fascism. Based on extensive archival research and a comprehensive reading of his corpus, I argue that the loss of the Spanish Empire inflected Ortega’s liberal-democratic commitments in ways that made him a key figure in the development of Spanish fascism. Research from this project has been published in the journals Political Theory and History of Political Thought. My other publications include a stand-alone article in Modern Intellectual History, which deals with Ortega’s postwar advocacy for European unification as an antidote to demagoguery, a chapter cataloguing Ortega’s influence on neoliberal political thought in The Oxford Handbook of Ordoliberalism, and a study of Ramiro de Maeztu’s views on the relationship between democracy and imperialism in the United States (forthcoming at Revista de Estudios Políticos).