Political Science

Zoë is a third-year Ph.D. candidate in political theory. Her interests broadly concern: Marx and Marxism; alienation; the history of technology and capitalism; utopianism; theories of power and domination; socialist feminism and social reproduction theory; theories of race, colonialism and empire. For the 2024-2025 school year, she is serving as the Slavery and Finance graduate proctor in the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice. Her proctorship research will focus 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).