I’m a Ph.D. student in the Sociology Program at the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), where I’m completing a dissertation on the reproduction and management of housing insecurity in the United States. My work takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding how complicated and messy social phenomena become organized as objects of knowledge and intervention. In addition to work in political sociology and political economy, I draw from American Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Science and Technology Studies to look at questions of power, race, the state, medicine, technoscience, and capital.
I have a published a few pieces based on my dissertation research, as well as articles and essays on a bunch of other topics, including critical race theory, LGBT social movements, mass media and war, contemporary art, and theories of the public sphere. Links and downloadable pdfs are in the Writing section of this site; you can read a summary of my dissertation chapters in the Research section.
Teaching
I am an Instructional Technology Fellow at the Macaulay Honors College of CUNY. I work with faculty and students to develop creative pedagogical uses of technology, including developing course weblogs, wikis, and multimedia presentations. (I built the website you’re currently looking at with WordPress, a free web platform I’ve used in many classes.) Prior to this position, I taught for several years as an adjunct instructor at Hunter College and FIT. My teaching statement and sample course materials can be found in the Teaching section of this site.
The Extracurricular Stuff
While in grad school, I have volunteered with organizations working on a broad range of social, racial and economic justice issues. In recent years I’ve shared my (questionable) dj skills at fundraisers to support the work of some of these groups, including the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, Time’s Up!, and the Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar Project. This past summer, I worked part-time at an organic pastured chicken farm. In between these activities and dissertating, I play keyboards in a pop band, The Ballet. We’ve just released our second album, Bear Life, which is a gay pun on the work of Giorgio Agamben.
Get in Touch
I’m always happy to discuss my work, and I gladly receive suggestions of new things to read and think through. Feel free to get in touch.