RESEARCH
Browse some of my recent work below.
Research interests: prefigurative politics, social movements, critical carceral studies, Black studies, decolonial theory, critical race theory, Indigenous Studies, racial formation, performance theory, art and activism, curation, utopia, worlding, protest, embodiment
The Spatial Politics of Student Protest: Solidarity and the Movement for PalestineSpace, Power, and Vulnerability: The Corporeal Politics of Student ProtestReform, Abolition, and Counterinsurgency in Prison Higher EducationUtopia in D Yard: Prefigurative Politics and the Attica Prison Uprising of 1971Towards a Queer Liminal Geography of Unwork: Anti-Capitalist Queer Epistemologies in Somerset Maugham’s The Razor’s EdgeA Unified Theory of Prefigurative Performance: Assembly and Appearance in Political ActionPerformative Border Acts and the Capitol Hill Occupied ProtestWhite Lightning: White Working-Class Radicalism and the Drug Plague, 1971–1975Race, Drugs, and Liminality in ScarfaceRace, Marijuana, and Moral Panic from Reefer Madness to the War on DrugsPerforming Humanity: Gendered Resistance, Public Grieving, and Legacies of Embodied Knowledge in Occupied Kashmir
Postmodern Realism and Unreality in Griselda Gambaro’s Theatre of CrisisLive Stillness: Dichotomies of Indigenous Performance in James Luna’s Artifact PieceRehearsing Community: Rafa Esparza’s building: a simulacrum of powerBorder Imperialism and Community Resistance