RESEARCH
Browse some of my recent work below.
Research interests: prefigurative politics, social movements, political organizing, Marxism, critical carceral studies, mass incarceration, decolonial theory, critical race theory, racial formation, Black studies, Native American studies, curation, performance studies, art and activism, feminist, queer, and transgender theory
Utopia 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, 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