Leila Ben Abdallah (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Political Theory at Yale University. She holds a B.A. in Political Science and Sociology from DePaul University. Leila’s research interests include anticolonial political thought, settler colonialism, transnational intellectual history, and affect. Her dissertation reconstructs critiques of white settler subjectivity and theories of political action from the praxis of Indigenous activists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Tracing the affective landscapes of U.S. settler colonialism offered in the works and archives of Pequot William Apess, Oneida Laura Cornelius Kellogg, Lakota Vine Deloria Jr., and radical indigenous organizations, she develops a genealogical account to show how settler shame, sympathy, and guilt shape relations and how actors respond to, refuse, and leverage these intersubjective affects for social and political transformation.