I am currently engaged in a dissertation project entitled “The Figure of the Refugee" in OSU’s Department of Comparative Studies. Aspects of this project explore immigration and refugee policing practices, the phenomena of bordering and border crossing, and historical conceptions of what it has meant within particular Western political theories to be an outsider, a migrant, a stranger. The goal of this project is to reconceptualize contemporary debates around political belonging through a careful exploration of the figure of the refugee in relation to the concept of the political.

More to come soon as my prospectus/proposal develops.