Description: I work as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at American University in Washington DC. My research focuses on eviction, race, displacement and the spatial and temporal dynamics of contemporary urban social movements from Occupy Wall Street and anti-gentrification activism to Black Lives Matter. Broadly I am interested in historical and contemporary struggles for social…
Home Writing Media and Publicu0026nbsp;Talks Community Engagement Teaching Oral History Poetry CV About I work as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at American University in Washington DC. My research focuses on eviction, race, displacement and the spatial and temporal dynamics of contemporary urban social movements from Occupy Wall Street and anti-gentrification activism to Black Lives Matter. Broadly I am interested in historical and contemporary struggles for social justice, the p
Currently I am preparing my first book manuscript titled: The Activist’s City: Social Movements, Structures of Feeling, and the Politics of Place this work traces the spatial and temporal dynamics of waves of mobilization, organizing and protest as activists navigate the complex afterlives of “movement moments”. Bringing together affect theory, critical race theory, oral history, political ethnography and urban studies, this book examines how in San Francisco and New York City, in the midst of rapid gent
My academic work has been published in Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Antipode, Sociological Quarterly, American Anthropologist, Anthropological Theory , Anthropological Quarterly , Abolition Journal , Radical Housing Journal among others. I have also been published in media outlets such as The Guardian , N+1 , AlterNet , The Indypendent, Racialicious, Counterpunch, and Waging Nonviolence , among other online and print periodicals, as well as in a number of edited b