Environmental historian and Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute.
His field is the history of ecological economics, energy systems, and animal life in the capitalist system. He has a PhD in History from New York University and has worked at Harvard as a postdoctoral research fellow. He has published (co-authored with Drew Pendergrass) Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics (Verso, 2022), which presents a model for a just and sustainable future. He also writes for such publications as Bookforum, New Left Review, The Guardian, Jacobin, n+1, and Salvage.