Relevant Academic Information

AOS: Social & Political Philosophy; 20th Century Continental Philosophy; Hannah Arendt
AOC: Ethics; Philosophy of Religion

Historical Interests
The Russian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956
The Holocaust

Ph.D. in Philosophy (May 2025), Fordham University

B.A. in Philosophy & Communications (May 2018), Fordham College at Lincoln Center

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Fordham University (Fall 2025)

Adjunct Assistant Professor, NYCity College of Technology, (Fall 2025-present)

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Lehman College, (Fall 2025-present)

Graduate Instructor, Fordham University (2020-2024)

“A New Triptych: Appearance, Emotion, Thought in Hannah Arendt’s Politics”
(Advisor: Dr. Samir Haddad)

David Kim has noted that Hannah Arendt’s political theory is permeated by recurring triadic structures—labor, work and action; thinking, willing, judging; private, social, public. These “emblematic triptychs” have long dominated scholarship on Arendt’s life and work.

This dissertation proposes a new triptych for Arendt scholars to consider—appearance, emotion, thought—as a lens through which to re-assess Arendt’s political vision. Drawing on three of Arendt’s books, I argue in three chapters for a more nuanced consideration of these features within the context of her political philosophy. Taken together, these chapters illuminate the ways in which appearance, emotion, and thought not only shape Arendt’s understanding of judgment, evil, politics, and narrative, but also challenge the boundaries between private and public, visible and invisible, individual and world.

This reframing brings renewed attention to the aesthetic and affective dimensions of Arendt’s thought. While Arendt often positions herself as a staunch critic of emotion while simultaneously elevating the categories of appearance and thought, her writings disclose a more complex relationship between these features. I trace the tensions and connections between these features across Arendt’s writings and thus open space for a more nuanced understanding of the role of affect, visibility, and thought in political life.