Academic Degrees
- DPhil, University of Oxford, 2012
Short Bio
I am a political theorist working at the intersection of normative philosophy and intellectual history. My primary area of research is liberty/freedom and its related concepts, including oppression, domination, power, agency, citizenship and nationality. I seek to do political theory imaginatively and creatively, combining different methods and approaches beyond the conventional sub-disciplinary divides.
Mypublications include Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics and Humanity (Princeton University Press, 2011), Arendt on Freedom, Liberation, and Revolution (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), and ‘Fukuzawa Yukichi’s Liberal Nationalism’, American Political Science Review (2023).
Prior to joining Waseda University in 2025, I was a Lecturer in Philosophy at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (2022-25), Assistant Professor and AIAS-COFUND Fellow at Aarhus University (2019-22), EURIAS Junior Fellow at I’Institut d’études avancées de Paris (2018-19), Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Oxford (2012-18), and a non-residential fellow at Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (2008-15). I also held visiting positions at Columbia University (2010-11), University of Tokyo (2012), and the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College (2017).
