B.A. in International Affairs, Lafayette College, 2014

M.A. in Anthropology, University of Virginia, 2017

Specialties

Political Ecology, Science and Technology Studies, Race, Indigeneity, Jamaica, The US

I am a sociocultural anthropologist whose research addresses the intersections of race, Indigeneity, and the environment. Broadly, my work connects two complex social phenomena—the plantation and climate change. I explore how the material and cultural transformations wrought by European conquest of the Americas shape contemporary environments and social life, including prevailing scientific frameworks. My dissertation centers on a movement to stop bauxite mining led primary by conservationist and Maroons in Jamaica. I have also undertaken community engaged fieldwork in Virginia on natural gas infrastructure and am building toward a second project on “rights of nature” statutes in the US Rustbelt.

Selected Publications

PUBLIC WRITING/BLOG POSTS

2020    We Need Ecosocialism to Stop the Next Pandemic. The Trouble. July 24. https://www.the-trouble.com/content/2020/7/24/we-need-ecosocialism-to-st....

2020    Zombie Knowledge: Toward a Deeper Conversation between Black Studies and Multispecies Anthropology, Platypus: The CASTAC Blog, July 14. http://blog.castac.org/2020/07/zombie-knowledge-toward-a-deeper-conversa...

2020    What if Competition Isn’t As “Natural” As We Think? Slate, January 23rd, https://slate.com/technology/2020/01/darwin-competition-collaboration-ev...

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

2018. Caring for Nature: Anonymity, Conservation, and Jamaican Maroons, Social and Economic Analyses: The Social Science Journal of the University of the West Indes 67, 1: 7-31