I hold a dual appointment at UC Davis as an Assistant Professor in the departments of American Studies and Design. My forthcoming book, Explosivity: Following What Remains, is coming soon in 2025 from the University of Minnesota Press (I’ll have more info here asap). Previously, I was a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in American Studies at Davis, and a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow at UC Berkeley in my PhD. ORCID
At Davis, I’m affiliated with graduate programs in Cultural Studies, Geography, and Community Development. In addition, I co-direct Critical Military, Security, and Policing Studies, a Davis Humanities Institute-funded working group that brings together graduate students, faculty, and community members to dissect myriad forms of state and proto-state violence. I’m a geographer with a background in architecture, art, and design. I focus on the emerging field of explosivity studies (how, when, and where things do–or do not–blow up), studying the spatial politics of landscapes shaped by past, present or potential explosions yet to come.
I teach broadly about political ecologies, natureculutures, landscapes, and designed geographies.
Ph.D., Geography, University of California, Berkeley CA
S.M.Arch.S., Architecture Studies (Architecture and Urbanism), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA
B.Arch., Cornell University, Ithaca NY