Profile:

My areas of interest include but are not limited to: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century United States Popular Culture; Race, Ethnicity and Migration; The Political Economy of Desire; Theories of Emotional and Affective Labor; Theories of Articulation and Technology; Radical Social Movements and the History of United States Colonial-Imperialism from the Frontier Wars to Iraq.  Much of my research and teaching tend to focus on how individual and collective identities are negotiated in the public sphere.  I focus on the various “points of contact” where historical and cultural forces intersect, collide and cooperate. My projects include a study of the commoditization of “voice” in black cultural production as well as an exploration into the quest for emotional and political autonomy by racialized communities living under the hegemony of the Liberal and Neo-Liberal Nation-State.

Education:

Ph.D African-American and American Studies, Yale University, 2007
B.A. Literature, Brooklyn College, 1997

Classes:

Introduction to Ethnic Studies

Introduction to Black Studies

African American Music and Social Change from Slavery to Hip Hop

Literatures of Black Nationalism
Contemporary U.S. Immigration