I am a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Wooster in Ohio. I completed a Ph.D. in Sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY) in September 2010, and spent Fall 2010 as a Visiting Scholar at the University of California Riverside. In addition to work in political sociology, geography, and political economy, I draw from American studies, ethnic studies, and science and technology studies to consider questions of power, race, the state, medicine, technoscience, and capital.
My dissertation, which I am revising into a book manuscript, takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding how housing insecurity becomes organized as an object of knowledge and intervention. I am especially interested in the ways in which racial and economic inequality are made productive in the context of neoliberal service and knowledge industries — including social services and social sciences. I have a published a few pieces on housing insecurity and the homeless services industry, as well as articles and essays on a variety 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.
I am currently working on two new research projects — one on the political economy of the university, and another on race, heteronormativity, and “the family” as a neoliberal technology of governance. You can read about these projects in the Research section of this site
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I’m always happy to discuss my work, and I gladly receive suggestions of new things to read and think through. Feel free to say hello.