Junior Research Fellow, 2022-2024
"Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other Lawful Fictions"
Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other Lawful Fictions examines legal texts alongside literary works by queer Chicano writers of the late 20th and early...
Faculty Fellows
Senior Research Fellow, 2020-2022 "Blind Cinema: Visually Impaired Cinema and the Somatic Sensorium" My book-length project on the subject of blind and visually impaired filmmakers and their development of a particular filmic style I am calling the “blind gaze” engages with...
Senior Research Fellow, 2020-2022 "The Black Pacific: The African Diaspora in South East Asia" The Black Pacific: The African Diaspora in South East Asia makes a theoretical and conceptual shift from the Black Atlantic, which is used to reconstruct, describe, and...
Junior Research Fellows, 2020-2022 " 'Who, We?' Pronominal Politics, Citizenship, and the Rights of the Other in Hashtag-Era France" ‘Who, We?’ explores the tensions between horizontal forms of political expression facilitated by social networks and vertical structures...
Senior Research Fellow, 2016-2018 Changing Epistemologies in Contemporary Cuba: Towards a Collaborative Ethnography This study analyzes Cuban scholars' search for new modes of inquiry as they interpret increasing political, economic, and sociocultural change in their country. I...
Junior Research Fellow, 2018-2020 Olive Olive is a book about 21st century settler-colonialism. Specifically, it connects displacement, land conquest, and memory with the politics of everyday survival for Palestinians located in Palestine and the West, through the optic...
Senior Research Fellow, 2019-2021 "The Empire of Effects: Industrial Light and Magic and the Rendering of Realism" My book-length project on the topic of US and global special visual effects and digital moving images is historically grounded in archival research and engages with...
Junior Research Fellow, 2019-2021 "Medina by the Bay: An Islamic Ethics of Difference and Survival in the Bay Area Islam is often discussed as something that arrives in (and threatens) the United States from a historic and geographic elsewhere. This project examines Muslim...
Junior Research Fellows, 2019-2021 "A Body Exposed: The Aesthetics of Sex, Death, and Mexicanness" A Body Exposed: The Aesthetics of Sex, Death, and Mexicanness contends that the representation of violence against sexual minorities is central to the construction and...
