POSITION
Profesor Ayudante Doctor (Assistant Professor), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Department of Political Science, 2025-present
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Postdoctoral Associate), Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Institute for Political Science, 2022-2025
Visiting Instructor of Political Theory, University of South Florida. School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies. 2020-2022.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Florida. Political Science. 2020.
- Dissertation: “Democracy and Disorientation: José Ortega y Gasset’s Post-Imperial Liberalism”
- Committee: Daniel I. O’Neill (chair), Steven Klein (co-chair), Leslie P. Thiele, Michael Bernhard, Conor O’Dwyer, and Sheryl Kroen (History)
M.A. University of Florida. Political Science. 2016.
B.A. // History & Political Science // University of Nebraska at Omaha // Honors, Cum Laude // 2011
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
“‘El alma de la frontera’: Reflexiones de Ramiro de Maeztu sobre el imperialismo estadounidense y la democracia liberal.” Revista de Estudios Políticos, forthcoming.
“Democratic Catastrophes and European Unification in Ortega y Gasset’s Postwar Political Thought.” Modern Intellectual History 22, no. 1-2 (2025), 159-183. Link
“Indocile Democracy: Ortega y Gasset, Liberalism, and the Humiliation of the Masses.” History of Political Thought 42 (2021), 342-372.
“Disoriented Liberalism: Ortega y Gasset in the Ruins of Empire.” Political Theory 47 (2019), 619-645.
“Ortega y Gasset, Democracy, and the Rule of the People.” Hispanic Research Journal 20 (2019), 548-565.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Review of Benjamin A. Schupmann, Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2024), Perspectives on Politics, 2025, 1-2. Link
Review of Brendon Westler, The Revolting Masses: José Ortega y Gasset’s Liberalism Against Populism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024), Global Intellectual History, 2025, 1-4. Link
“La España en crisis de Posada: Insinceridad, represión y reforma.” In Pensar las crisis políticas en España durante los siglos XIX y XX. Edited by Antonio Robles Egea and Manuel Menéndez Alzamora. Madrid: Tecnos, 2024.
“Ortega y Gasset: The Fear of Mass Society.” Oxford Handbook of Ordoliberalism. Edited by Thomas Biebricher, Werner Bonefeld, and Peter Nedergaard. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
“Savonarola’s Activity in Renaissance Florence.” In Great Events in Religion, ed. Andrew Holt and Florin Curta. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2016.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
The Liberalism of Loss: José Ortega y Gasset in the Ruins of Empire. Book manuscript, forthcoming at Oxford University Press.
“‘El alma de la frontera’: Reflexiones de Ramiro de Maeztu sobre el imperialismo y la democracia estadounidense.” Under review at Revista de Estudios Políticos.
“Democracy, Empire, and Moderation in Salvador de Madariaga’s Interwar Political Thought.” Complete draft, in preparation for submission to American Political Science Review.
“Unlocking El Cid’s Tomb: Ramiro de Maeztu, Guild Socialism, and Humble Imperialism.” Complete draft, in preparation for submission to European Journal of Political Theory.
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
“Dystopian Distrust: Shklar, Orwell, and the Undoing of Democracy.”
- Workshop on “The Liberalism of Fear in Times of Democratic Distrust,” November 2024. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.
“Salvador de Madariaga’s Organic Democracy and the Problem of Oligarchy.”
- American Political Science Association, 2024. Philadelphia, PA.
“‘El alma de la frontera’: Reflexiones de Ramiro de Maeztu sobre el imperialismo y la democracia estadounidense.”
- La Asociación Española de Ciencia Política y de la Administración, July 2024. Burgos, Spain.
“Unlocking El Cid’s Tomb: Ramiro de Maeztu, Guild Socialism, and Humble Imperialism.”
- Midwestern Political Science Association, April 2024. Chicago, IL.
“Democratic Catastrophes and European Unification in Ortega y Gasset’s Postwar Political Thought.”
- King’s College Political Theory Workshop, February 2024. London, UK.
- Goethe-Universität Political Theory Colloquium, October 2023. Frankfurt, DE.
“Ortega y Gasset, Liberal Democracy, and the Humiliation of the Masses.”
- American Political Science Association, August 2019. Washington, DC.
- Mancept Workshops in Political Theory, September 2019. Manchester, UK.
“Empire and Democracy in Ortega y Gasset’s Critique of the Masses.”
- Western Political Science Association, April 2019. San Diego, CA.
“Disoriented Liberalism: José Ortega y Gasset in the Ruins of Empire.”
- Western Political Science Association, March 2018. San Francisco, CA.
“The Eternal Tragedy of Human Existence: Ortega y Gasset on Democracy and Crisis.”
- Conference on José Ortega y Gasset, January 2018. University of St. Andrews, UK.
“A Tale of Two Josés: Ortega y Gasset’s Impact on Spanish Fascism.”
- Western Political Science Association, April 2017. Vancouver, CA.
“Conservative Visions of the People: Burke’s Multitude and Carlyle’s Millions.”
- Western Political Science Association, March 2016. San Diego, CA.
“The Voice of Mute Nature: Murray Bookchin and the Politics of Technological Foresight.”
- Association for Political Theory, October 2014. Madison, WI.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
- The Politics of Loneliness, Winter 2024-2025
- Tyranny in the History of Political Thought, Summer 2024
- European Integration in Historical and Contemporary Political Theory, Winter 2023-2024
- Dystopian Political Thought, Summer 2023
Instructor, University of South Florida
- POT 3003 – Introduction to Political Theory, Fall 2020-Spring 2022 (9 sections total)
- POT 3013 – Classical Political Theory, Fall 2021
- POT 4054 – Modern Political Theory, Fall 2020, Spring 2022
- POT 4064 – Contemporary Political Thought, Spring 2021
- POT 4936 – Problems of Democracy, Fall 2020
- POT 4936 – Dystopia, Spring 2020, Spring 2022
- POT 6007 – Seminar in Political Theory (Graduate), Fall 2021
Instructor, University of Florida
- IDH 2930 – Orwell’s Political Thought, Spring 2019
- IDH 2930 – Propaganda’s Genesis, Fall 2018
- POT 4311 – The Problems of Democracy, Spring 2017
Teaching Assistant, University of Florida
- IUF 1000 – What is the Good Life, Summer/Fall 2015; Spring/Summer/Fall 2016.
- POT 2002 – Introduction to Political Theory (Daniel O’Neill), Spring 2015.
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
Editorial Assistant, Perspectives on Politics (Summer 2017-present)
Editorial Assistant, Journal of Modern African Studies (Fall 2013-Summer 2014)
LANGUAGES
English: native language
Spanish: fluent (speaking, reading, writing; C1 DELE)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Manuscript Reviewer, Modern Intellectual History, European Journal of Political Theory, Journal of the Philosophy of History, Hispanic Research Journal, Intellectual History Review, American Journal of Political Science
Bargaining Council Vice President, Graduate Assistants United, United Faculty of Florida (2017-2018)
Member of Job Search Committee for Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Florida (Fall 2016-Spring 2017)
Co-President, Graduate Assistants United, University of Florida (2015-2017)
Organizing Chair, Graduate Assistants United, University of Florida (2015)
Political Theory Field Chair, Political Science Graduate Student Council, University of Florida (2014-2017)
Treasurer, Political Science Graduate Student Council, University of Florida (2014-2015)
First-Year Representative, Political Science Graduate Student Council, University of Florida (2013-2014)
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