Political Science

Zoë is a third-year Ph.D. candidate in Political Theory, with a minor field certificate in American Politics. Her broad interests include: history of capitalism and technology; labor history; contemporary labor politics; the ‘machine question’; the political theory and politics of automation; automated intelligence; political theories of power, authority and domination; alienation; Marx and marxism; feminist political theory; political theories of freedom and emancipation. In ‘24-’25, she served as the Slavery and Finance Graduate Proctor in the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice. Her proctorship research focused on the technologies of finance that facilitated the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Atlantic plantation complex, and how these aided the development of global capitalism. She received her M.A. in Political Science from Brown in 2024. Prior to Brown, she received her B.A. in political science with honors from San Francisco State University. She is also the recipient of the Matthew F. Stolz Scholarship in Political Theory (2020), the Stolz Prize for Best Political Theory Paper (2021), and the P. Terrence Hopmann Award for Excellence in Teaching (2023).