I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the Ohio State University. I specialize in political theory and the history of political thought. I am also the Research Coordinator at FIDE – North America and affiliated with the Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability (IDEA).
My dissertation explores the development of democratic republicanism in the seventeenth-century Dutch republic. Engaging with this early democratic tradition, I recover a neglected history of democratic republicanism and provide a framework for rethinking freedom and popular self-government in contemporary political theory.
My other research focuses on contemporary challenges to oligarchic domination and democratic freedom. Some of this work is forthcoming at Perspectives on Politics.
Prior to joining Ohio State, I received an MA in Social Sciences (2021) from the University of Chicago and a dual BA in Sociology and Philosophy from West Virginia University.
I can be reached at trommelen.1[at]osu.edu