EDUCATION
Clark University, Ph.D., Geography
Dissertation: “Domino in the Longue Durée: Racial Capitalism and the Urban Question”
Committee: Asha Best, Mark Davidson, Mona Domosh, Deborah Martin, Rashad Shabazz
Clark University, M.A., Geography, 2022
CUNY Graduate Center, Coursework in American Studies, 2018-19
Hunter College, M.S., Urban Policy & Planning, 2018
Smith College, B.A., Government, 2008, cum laude
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
2024. “Towards a Black Atlantic Urbanism.” Environmental Histories of the Black Atlantic World (Eds. Oscar De La Torre and Thaïsa Way). Dumbarton Oaks Garden & Landscape Studies Symposium Series, Harvard University Press (Accepted with minor revisions).
2023. “’Bodies in Transit’: Speculation and biopolitics in nineteenth-century New York City.” American Quarterly 75:1, 1-26.
2018. “‘Business as Usual’ or ‘Just Business’? A critical comparison of urban industrial rezonings.” Middle States Geographer 51, 21-32.
WORK IN PREPARATION
“Critical visuality: Discipline, legibility and form in the archive” (journal article, in preparation for submission)
“Mapping the ‘spade work’ of social justice: Black geographies and the cultural landscapes of the Civil Rights movement in Washington, D.C.” (public-facing writing, Urban Heritage Project/National Park Service)
AWARDS & HONORS
2024 Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov Paper Award, Cultural Geography Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers
2022 Pruser Dissertation Enhancement Award, Clark University Graduate School
2022 Graduate Student Skills Training Award, Clark University Graduate Student Council
2022 Andrew Hill Clark Award for Best PhD Student Paper, Historical Geography Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers
2020 Pre-dissertation Research Fellowship, Clark University Graduate School
2019 Graduate Student Fellowship, Clark University Graduate School
2019 Altfest Graduate Fellowship Award, CUNY Graduate Center
2019 Masters of Liberal Studies Summer Fellowship Award, CUNY Graduate Center
2019 Paul LeClerc Competition for Best Research Paper, Hunter College
2019 Conference Travel Award, American Association of Geographers
2018 Conference Travel Award, CUNY Graduate Center Master’s Programs
2018 Award for Best Graduate Student Paper, American Association of Geographers Middle States Division
2018 Certificate for Academic Excellence, Hunter College Graduate School
2008 Deutsche Ehrenverbindung (Delta Phi Alpha), Smith College
2004 Mary Maples Dunn Merit Scholarship, Smith College
INSTITUTES & FELLOWSHIPS
2023-2025 Editorial and Research Fellow, the Lindy Institute, Drexel University
2024 Research Fellow, University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, Department of Historic Preservation/National Parks Service
2023 Speaker, Dumbarton Oaks Symposium in Garden and Landscape Studies: Environmental Histories of the Black Atlantic
2023 Research Fellow, Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center
2023 Research Fellow, University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites
2022 Invited Participant, Futures of American Studies Summer Institute, Dartmouth College
2020 Historian-in-Residence, Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center
INVITED TALKS
2023 “From Surplus to Scarcity: Restaurant Labor along the Brooklyn Waterfront, 2020-2023,” Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center (virtual)
2023 “The spatial fix in the Black Atlantic: the structuring contradiction of the Haitian Revolution and Brooklyn’s industrial landscape,” Dumbarton Oaks Garden and Landscape Symposium, Washington, D.C.
2023 “The Black Atlantic & Urban History,”Urban Humanities (Un)Conference, Tuscon, AZ
2018 “An Economic Geography of the Lower East Side,” Invited Class Lecture: Neighborhood and Community Development, Barnard College
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2024 “Relational Comparison in the Black Atlantic,” Royal Geographic Society, London.
2024 “Jumping Scale in the Black Atlantic,” American Association of Geographers, Honolulu, HI.
- Session organizer, “Scale, method, form: narrating the Black geographic.”
- Awarded Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov Award (Cultural Geography Specialty Group)
2023 “Industrial Urban Landscapes and the Absent Presence of Slavery,” The Urban History Association Conference, Pittsburgh, PA
2023 “Black Geographies and the spatial fix: the structuring contradiction of the Haitian Revolution,” American Association of Geographers, Denver, CO.
- Session organizer, “Urban Histories and Black Spatial Imaginaries.”
2022 “Domino in the Longue Durée: Racial Capitalism & the Urban Question,” Futures of American Studies Summer Institute, Hanover, NH
2022 “’Bodies in Transit’: Speculation and the Biopolitical Imaginary,” American Association of Geographers, Virtual.
- Awarded Andrew Hill Clark prize (Historical Geography Specialty Group)
2019 “Crisis, coercion, and quiescence: revisiting pension fund negotiations during the 1975 Fiscal Crisis,” Urban Affairs Association, Los Angeles, CA.
2019 “‘Business as Usual’ or ‘Just Business’? A Critical Comparison of Industrial Rezonings,” American Association of Geographers, Washington, D.C.
2018 “‘Business as Usual’ or ‘Just Business’? A Critical Comparison of Industrial Rezonings,” American Association of Geographers Middle States Division, Montclair,
- Awarded Best Graduate Student Paper (American Association of Geographers Middle States Division)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate Teaching Fellow, Clark University
Fall 2019 Introduction to Economic Geography (Teaching Assistant)
Spring 2020 Introduction to Research Design and Methods (Discussion Section Leader)
Fall 2020 Gender & Environment (Discussion Section Leader)
Spring 2021 Global Change, Regional Challenges (Teaching Assistant)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Spring 2023 Research Assistant, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
2018-2019 Policy Researcher, MIT Community Innovators Lab, Bronx, NY
2017- 2018 Research Assistant, Urban Manufacturing Alliance, Brooklyn, NY
2007-2008 Research Assistant, Smith College, Department of American Studies, Northampton, MA
BOOK REVIEWS
2023. Police and the Empire City: Race and the Origins of Modern Policing in New York, by Matthew Guariglia, Duke University Press, 208 pages. The Gotham Center for New York City History.
2023. Grand Emporium, Mercantile Monster: The Antebellum South’s Love-Hate Affair with New York City, by Ritchie Devon Watson, Jr., Louisiana State University Press, 264 pages. The Gotham Center for New York City History.
2023. Bound by Bondage: Slavery and the Creation of a Northern Gentry, by Nicole Saffold Maskiell, Cornell University Press, 2022, 306 pages. The Gotham Center for New York City History.
2022. Site-seeing aesthetics: California sojourns in five installations, by Lene Johannessen, Leiden, Brill Rodopi, 2021, 176 pages. Journal of Cultural Geography 39:3, 422-423.
2022. Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery: A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World, Dale W. Tomich, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Carlos Venegas Fornias, Rafael de Bivar Marquese (Eds.), University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill (2021), 176 pages. Journal of Historical Geography 75:1, 69-70.
2021. “A Social History of Creative Work: Shannan Clark’s The Making of the American Creative Class.” The Gotham Center for New York City History.
2019. Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State by Samuel Stein. The Advocate.
PUBLIC-FACING MEDIA
2023. UAR Remixed: A companion podcast to Urban Affairs Review. Lead writer & producer. https://www.urbanaffairsreview.com/uar-remixed
2023. “From Surplus to Scarcity: Restaurant Labor along the Brooklyn Waterfront, 2020-2023.” Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center. https://academicworks.cuny.edu/ny_pubs/1053/
2022. “Recover and Remix: Digital Humanities, Heritage Preservation, and Black Geographies.” University of Pennsylvania Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites. https://cpcrs.upenn.edu/initiatives/recover-and-remix-digital-humanities-heritage-preservation-and-black-geographies
2021. “From Brooklyn to ‘Brooklyn’: The Cultural Transformation of Leisure, Pleasure, and Taste.” Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center. https://bwrc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2020/03/19/frombrooklyn/
2019. “Fixing the Accessibility Gap in Municipal Procurement.” Metropolitics. https://www.metropolitiques.eu/Fixing-the-Accessibility-Gap-in-Municipal-Procurement.html
2019. “What Comes Next? Building on the Momentum of the Amazon Fiasco.” The Advocate.
2018. “All in ‘a day’s work’: a feminist exploration of economic democracy in the Bronx,” MIT’s CoLab Radio. http://colabradio.mit.edu/all-in-a-days-work-a-feminist-exploration-of-economic-democracy-in-the-bronx/
ACADEMIC SERVICE
2023 Peer Reviewer, American Quarterly
Editor, The Gotham Center for New York City History Blog
Associate Managing Editor, Urban Affairs Review
2020 Table Reader, AP Exam in Human Geography, College Board
2019 Undergraduate Studies Committee, Clark University
Professional Development Workshop Committee, Clark University
2018 Managing Editor, The Advocate, CUNY Graduate Center
2017 Content Editor, Urban Review, Hunter College
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Association of Geographers
American Studies Association
Urban History Association