I am a Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Pomona College. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Prior to coming to Pomona, I was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Claremont McKenna College, a Social Sciences Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago, and a Research Fellow at the Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization at Yale Law School.
I specialize in Islamic philosophy and theology, with a particular focus on medieval Iberia and North Africa. My research has focused on the twelfth century Almohad Caliphate and its place within Islamic intellectual history. My current project examines the writings of the caliphate’s founder, Muḥammad ibn Tūmart (1080-1130), as well as their role in establishing a new form of Islam that simultaneously embraced theological rationalism and radical messianism.