I am currently working on two book projects, the first of which is largely based on my PhD dissertation, is Laws Living and Armed: the political and legal theory of Thomas Hobbes.  This manuscript has two broad aims: to show the full complexity Thomas Hobbes's distinctive legal theory, and to use that legal theory as a lens to recast and resolve persistent problems in Hobbes's political theory.  This is primarily a conceptual and textual analysis, but one which relies heavily on the legal and political historical contexts in which Hobbes was working. My second book project, How to Be a Person, was also born of research done for my dissertation but has since taken on much broader scope.  How to Be a Person examines the modern foundations of personhood, examining how and when and under what circumstances people became persons, legally, socially, religiously, and politically. It focuses on intersecting case studies of people with mental disabilities, mothers, colonial subjects, incarcerated subjects, prisoners of war, children, and immigrants.  I focus on early modern British personhood and the ways in which the individual was co-created with the modern state. How to Be a Person is rooted in my interest in legal and political history, as well as my interest in moral and queer theory and questioning the sources of our contemporary ideas of personhood and their limits.