My Research
I am a scholars of 19th and 20th century US History, African American Studies with a particular focus in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. My current research on focuses on Black gay cultural production during the Long 1980s and the intersections of the carceral state, public health, and intimacy.
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TALKS
“Deviant Science: The Co-Development of Scientific Racism and Homophobia in Mexico, Cuba, and Brazil.” Ethnohistory Conference (2019)
“Locked In: (His)Stories from Black Gay Cultural Renaissance of the 1980s Era” aT the Organization of American Historians Conference (Solicited) (Canceled due to Covid-19 2020)
“Locked In: (His)Stories from Black Gay Cultural Renaissance of the 1980s Era” at Bucknell University (Solicited) (cancelled due to Covid-19 2020)
“Black Queer Culture in the 20th Century” USC Slavic Languages and Literature Graduate Reading Group (Invited) (2020)
“REFRAMING rESISTANCE: Joseph Beam and the Prison Question IN THE 1980S” aSSOCIATION FOR THE sTUDY OF aFRICAN aMERICAN lIFE AND hISTORY cONFERENCE (2022)