Leila Ben Abdallah is a political theorist. She earned a PhD in Political Science from Yale University. Her research focuses on Indigenous political thought, decolonization, racial capitalism, and the politics of emotion. Her current book project, The Refuse of Shame: Social Transformation, Shame, and Indigenous Critique of U.S. Settler Colonialism, examines how shame surfaces as a central concern of various strands of critique throughout the 19th and 20th centuries by reconstructing how Indigenous activists in North America have grappled with shame as felt experience, aesthetic praxis, and political tactic. Ben Abdallah also holds an MPhil in Political Science from Yale University and a BA in Political Science from DePaul University.