Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies

Education: PhD, University of Chicago
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Research Interest

Environmental Justice, Technoscience, Law and Space, Indigenous Studies, Queer and Transgender Studies, Community-Based Research

My research and teaching focus on primarily on climate and environmental justice, feminist technoscience, critical legal geographies, and community-based research methodologies.  In my scholarship, I interrogate how settler law produces and attempts to legitimate environmental violence. I am invested in ways that interdisciplinary research, pedagogy, and practice can contribute to anti-colonial futures. My current book project, Patchwork: Land, Law, and Extraction in Greater Chaco, is a study of the politics of oil and gas extraction in the Greater Chaco region of northwestern New Mexico. As part of this work, I co-produced and co-wrote the award-winning documentary film Our Story: The Indigenous Led Fight to Protect Greater Chaco (with Michael Ramsey, Daniel Tso, John Hosteen, Julia Bernal, Kendra Pinto, and Hazel James-Tohe). I am currently developing new research on energy transitions in New Mexico and am involved in several community-based and collaborative film and archival projects.

My work has appeared most recently in Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, the American Journal of Public Health, and Engaging Science Technology, and Society. I hold a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago and a MA in Geography from the University of Toronto. I have also held postdoctoral fellowships at Dalhousie University and the University of California, Irvine. I enjoy working with students (both undergraduate and graduate) on research and other goals. I welcome you to get in touch if our interests align!