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Experiments in Southern Queer Abolition: An Interview with Southerners on New Ground (SONG) on the Black Mama’s Bail Out Campaign (Under Review with Southern Spaces Queer Intersections Series)

Captive Words: An Anthology of Poetry from Angola. Editor. (In Progress)

“Patriarchy, Prisons, and Urban Planning: The ‘Public’ Struggle Over the Expansion of the Orleans Parish Prison” co-written with Siri J. Colom. (In progress)

“The Plantation as a Beginning Not an End: The Racial Capitalist Productions of the Louisiana Carceral State” (In progress)

“Policing Sex and Gender in the New Orleans Tourism Economy” (In progress)

FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND PRIZES

The Graduate Center, CUNY, American Studies Dissertation Fellowship, 2017-2018

The Graduate Center, CUNY, Conference Presentation Travel Grant, Fall 2016

Lost & Found Archival Research Grant, 2016

The Graduate Center, CUNY, Doctoral Student Summer Research Grant, Summer 2016

Human Geography Small Grants Program, 2015

New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation Archival and Documentation Grant, 2015

Neil Smith Research and Travel Fellowship, 2015

Oberlin College Alumni Graduate Fellowship, 2015

Advanced Research Collaborative Knickerbocker Award for Archival Research in American Studies, Summer 2015

Macaulay Instructional Technology Fellow, 2013-2015

Advanced Research Collaborative Knickerbocker Award for Archival Research in American Studies, Summer 2014

The Graduate Center, CUNY, Doctoral Student Summer Research Grant, Summer 2014

The Graduate Center, CUNY, Conference Presentation Travel Grant, Fall 2013

Advanced Research Collaborative Research Praxis Fellowship, Fall 2013

The Graduate Center, CUNY, Conference Presentation Travel Grant, Spring 2013

University of New Orleans Fritz Wagner Award, 2011

Oberlin College Comparative American Studies Comfort Starr Prize, 2007

Oberlin College Jerome Davis Research Award, 2006

CONFERENCE PRESENTATION

“Policing Racialized Sex and Gender in the New Orleans Tourism Economy.” Paper to be presented at the 8th International Conference of Critical Geography, Athens, Greece, April 19-23, 2019.

“Jailing Louisiana: A Spatial Fix to Penal Overcrowding” (Panel Co-Organizer) Paper to be presented at the “Carceral Crisis” panel at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington DC, April 3-7, 2019.

“Abolitionist Lineages in Post-Katrina Organizing” to be presented at the “CR South at 15” panel at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, November 15-18, 2018.

“Policing Sex and Gender in the New Orleans Tourism Economy.” Paper presented at Sexuality and Space AAG Pre-Conference. New Orleans, LA, April 9, 2018.

“Refusing Louisiana Exceptionalism: The Politics and Practices of Abolitionist Research.” Paper presented at “Gulf South Geographies of Freedom: Rethinking the Politics and Practices of New Orleans Research in the Geographic Imagination” panel at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 10-15, 2018.

“Feminist Research Praxis for Contesting Criminalization.” Paper presented at “From Baltimore to Bangalore: Intersectional Geographies and Place-Based Feminist Teaching and Research” panel at the National Women Studies Association Conference, Baltimore, MD, November 16-19, 2017.

“Oil Booms and Busts, Prisons Boom and Boom.” Paper presented at “Citizenship, Extraction, Real Estate, Waste and Work: Situating Police and Prison Power in the Patterns of Racial Capitalism” panel (co-organizer) at the American Studies Association Conference, Chicago, IL, November 9-12, 2017.

‘To Walk Down the Street Without Fear’: Fighting Criminalization, Creating Transformation.” Paper presented at “Critical Prison Studies: Making Freedom: Materializing Abolition Through Non-Reformist Reforms” panel at the American Studies Association Conference, Denver, CO, November 17-20, 2016.

“Post-Katrina Policing and Dispossession.” Paper presented at “Policing in American Cities,” panel at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, June 2-5, 2016.

“The Plantation as a Beginning, Not an End: The Racial Capitalist Productions of the Louisiana Carceral State.” Paper presented at “Critical Penal Geographies I: Histories, Political Economies, and Epistemologies of the Carceral State,” panel at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 29-April 2, 2016.

“Scaling Back or Scaling Up? Tracking the Lessons of the Louisiana Carceral State.” Paper presented at “Critical Prison Studies Caucus: Contradictions and Changing Permutations of the Prison Industrial Complex” panel at the American Studies Association Conference, Toronto, Canada, October 8-11, 2015.

“From Crisis to Consolidation: The Build Up of the Louisiana Carceral State.” Paper presented at the “Rethinking Grounds of Punishment, Mass Incarceration, and Reform” panel at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Il, April 21-25, 2015.

“Reconfigurations of the Southern Carceral State: Understanding the Redemption Roots of Neoliberalism.” Paper presented at “The South and the PIC” panel at the Southern American Studies Association Biennial Conference, Atlanta, GA, February 19-21, 2015.

“Patriarchy, Prisons, and Planning: The ‘Public’ Struggle over the Expansion of the Orleans Parish Prison” Paper presented at the “Confronting Carceral America: Activist Responses to the Punitive Logics of Debt” panel at the American Studies Association Conference, Washington D.C., November 21-24, 2013.

“Organizing for Freedom: Abolitionist Reforms and the Angola Special Civics Project.” Paper presented at the “Carceral Geographies” panel at the Rethinking Prisons Conference, Nashville, TN, May 2-5, 2013.

“Power, Prisons, and ‘Public’ Meetings.” Paper presented at the “Urban Spaces of Submission and Subversion” panel (co-organizer) at the 111^th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association, San Francisco, CA, November 14-18, 2012.

“Activist Scholars Caucus.” Co-organizer at Allied Media Conference Detroit, MI, June 29, 2012.

“Patriarchy, Prisons, and ‘Public’ Meetings.” Paper presented at the “Dangers of Privatization” panel at the Southeast Women’s Studies Association Conference, Atlanta, GA, March 24-26, 2011.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2011-2012 Researcher for Immoral City: A New Orleans Atlas, researching and mapping contemporary and historical sites of struggle and pleasure.

2008-2009 Research assistant for Dr. Rachel Luft studying the networks and politicization of internally displaced persons following hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE                                            

Spring 2015, Instructor, The Politics of Punishment, Macaulay Honors College

Spring 2015, Instructional Technology Fellow, Shaping the Future of New York, Macaulay Honors College

Spring 2015, Instructional Technology Fellow, Peopling New York, Macaulay Honors College

Fall 2014, Instructional Technology Fellow, Arts in New York, Macaulay Honors College

Fall 2014, Instructional Technology Fellow, Science Forward, Macaulay Honors College

Spring 2014, Instructional Technology Fellow, Shaping the Future of New York, Macaulay Honors College

Spring 2014, Instructional Technology Fellow, Peopling New York, Macaulay Honors College

Fall 2013, Instructional Technology Fellow, Of All Lies: Art is the Least Untrue, Macaulay Honors College

Fall 2013, Instructional Technology Fellow, Science and Technology in New York City, Macaulay Honors College

Spring 2013, Instructor, Introduction to Geography: People and Their Environment, at Hunter College.

Fall 2012, Instructor, Introduction to Geography: People and Their Environment, at Hunter College.

Spring 2011, Guest lecturer on “Faith in Action” for Megan Dowdell and Betty Jeanne Reuters-Ward, Dynamic Youth Ministry, at Starr King School of Ministry, UC Berkeley

Fall 2006, Teaching assistant for Dr. Meredith Raimondo, Situated Research (CAST300) the advanced methods and methodology course for Oberlin College Comparative American Studies.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS