Welcome.
I am an Anthropologist and an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Honors College at the University of Arizona. After having been awarded tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Memphis, I moved home to Tucson to re-center family and community in my daily life. In whatever role I fill, I consider myself a visual ethnographer and a public scholar.
Across my career my questions have been situated at the intersection of identity and incarceration.
My most recent project while at the University of Memphis was in collaboration with colleagues, students, and a local non-profit offering sex-positive, queer-affirming sexual education to folks being released from imprisonment. This project held many aims, from supporting the needs of the organization to a critical reflection on health and care under the current biomedical regime. Past projects include a participatory photovoice project with women who have incarcerated loved ones, as well as a visual ethnography exploring the intersection of racial capitalism and normative masculinity during prison reentry. Across these projects and together with research participants, I attempt to use the camera as a locus of understanding, visually and textually charting the varied experiences and impacts of imprisonment on the self.
For more information about my academic work and community engagements, click "Is" above. For a sampling of published work, click "Writing." A brief portfolio of my photography is available if you click "Looking" with select award-winning images below.
For questions or for speaking engagements, please contact me at [email protected], or click the email icon at the top of the page.
Across my career my questions have been situated at the intersection of identity and incarceration.
My most recent project while at the University of Memphis was in collaboration with colleagues, students, and a local non-profit offering sex-positive, queer-affirming sexual education to folks being released from imprisonment. This project held many aims, from supporting the needs of the organization to a critical reflection on health and care under the current biomedical regime. Past projects include a participatory photovoice project with women who have incarcerated loved ones, as well as a visual ethnography exploring the intersection of racial capitalism and normative masculinity during prison reentry. Across these projects and together with research participants, I attempt to use the camera as a locus of understanding, visually and textually charting the varied experiences and impacts of imprisonment on the self.
For more information about my academic work and community engagements, click "Is" above. For a sampling of published work, click "Writing." A brief portfolio of my photography is available if you click "Looking" with select award-winning images below.
For questions or for speaking engagements, please contact me at [email protected], or click the email icon at the top of the page.
