About

I am a critical human geographer. Critical Human Geographers utilize “space” and “place” as central components in the analysis of global power, privilege, and exploitation alongside the modes of resistance that challenge them.

Thinking about space and place as a geographer today means thinking holistically about interrelations, connectivity, webs of influence, and the “relationality” of all forms of life and matter in the world.

As a political geographer I am specifically interested in how these networks of life relate to power. By power here I am referring to its multiple personalities: capital P (P)ower and lowercase p (p)ower, as explored in the works of Hardt and Negri in their analysis of Baruch Spinoza. (P)ower, or potestas in Latin, refers to forms of hierarchy, domination, or control. (p)ower, or potentia, refers to forms of energy in terms of the potential within all beings to alter the course of things. My life’s work is to understand these relationships and how we might better foster the lower case p in everyday life.

My current research specifically focuses on territory, rights, and resistance in the U.S.; philosophy; post- and decolonial studies; and political and critical theory. In the broadest sense, my research focuses on the intersections between migration, borders, labor exploitation, and political organizing as they relate to rights, citizenship, and democracy.

I recently completed my PhD in Human Geography at the Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, where I worked under the supervision of Professor Mark Davidson.