Welcome! I am a 6th year PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at UC San Diego. I study race, law, and intervention in International Relations (IR). I am an incoming UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley Political Science.
How does racism shape the application and enforcement of international law? My research program is motivated by this question. Despite conventional assumptions about formal equality between sovereign states, I explore international law as patterns of exclusion from which race is a key organizing principle. My dissertation and book project examine status agreements and intervention as legal outcomes of racial hierarchy in world politics. I have published or have work forthcoming in the Annual Review of Political Science, Security Studies, International Studies Review, and International Politics.
My dissertation has been supported by the UC Office of the President (UCOP), UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (UCIGCC), and the American Political Science Association (APSA).
bfreeman@ucsd.edu | @bfreepolsci