Specialties

I am a second-year doctoral student of cultural Anthropology at the University of Virginia. I am largely interested in Black time-space, queer and feminist ecologies, performance and poetics. My research explores generational trauma and ancestral memory as it is demonstrated in the lives and lore of Black matriarchs—and more specifically, for the women in my own family who have an especially fraught and pervasive history of organized violence against children. In the tradition of Black feminist anthropology, my work tends to make self-reflexive and discursive interventions in experimental ethnography to bring quotidian social habitus and the arts into the purview of scholarly research.