Areas of Expertise
I received my Ph.D. in “Society and Environment” from the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. I locate my work on the political economy and cultural politics of race and U.S. agri-food systems at the intersection of the fields of American Studies, Comparative Ethnic Studies, and Critical Geography.
Across my research, teaching, and public curriculum, I focus on 20th- and 21st-century dynamics of U.S. agricultural and rural governance and investment, U.S. racial capitalism and colonialism, and racial formations within and beyond the United States. Critically, I do so while centering the antiracist, anticolonial, and revolutionary-socialist struggles at the center of such historical and contemporary dynamics.