“Abolition.” Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon 8 (2025), available at: https://www.politicalconcepts.org/abolition-jochen-schmon/ 

This peer-reviewed article provides a first sketch of my dissertation project, but particularly focuses on 18th century abolitionists. I theorize their writings as attempts to translate into the imperial public spheres the political demands articulated in the Caribbean slave revolts—the very sites of European empires that would also become the discursive staging ground of early feminist and radical proletarian movements. In their rejection of slavery as a 'private' or 'economic' matter, this article argues that abolitionists inaugurated the true quarrel between the ancients and the moderns, which made possible radical conceptions of patriarchy and capitalism as different but interrelated forms in which the "tyranny" of slavery exists.

with Udeepta Chakravarty, “The Oligarchic Unconscious of Liberal Republicanism.” Constellations 32:2 (June 2025): 232-244; https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12774 

This peer-reviewed article conceptualizes liberal republicanism as the legal-constitutional form of modern oligarchy, paradigmatically crystallized in the debates at the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787. We reconstruct how both Federalists and Anti-Federalists reactivated the decidedly anti-democratic arguments of ancient political thought for a republican "mixed regime," which they perceived as the most effective form of government to protect liberalism's central value: the non-interference in private property rights. More important than the dispute over the issue of federalism, what united the contending makers of the U.S. Constitution was their fierce repression of the anti-oligarchic demands articulated in Shays' Rebellion—the Massachusetts peasant uprising of 1786 that called for an abolition of debt and an equal division of property.