Welcome! This website serves as an overview of my research, pedagogy, and community engagement.

I’m Assistant Professor of Black Rhetoric & Popular Culture at The Ohio State University. I also currently serves as Vice President of the Cultural Studies Association.

Utilizing rhetorical and cultural methods of analysis, my research operates at the intersection of Black studies, Caribbean studies, and critical Romani studies. I ask the following questions: What social codes are imposed on Black and Roma people? What exceeds that imposition, and how do we resist it? What connections might be made across various dispossessed groups in such resistance? And how can we think reflexively about the constraints of even our most radical blueprints of liberation?

In responding to these questions, I have developed an original concept of “Black iconoclasm” (2024) as a practice/method of Black radical discernment for navigating the post-Ferguson American context & re-thinking even our most cherished blueprints about Black liberation.

My second in-progress book project, tentatively titled Poetics of Negation, pushes against the grain of contemporary discourses surrounding diversity, identity, and diaspora. Beginning in Queens, NY — the most diverse ethnic and linguistic urban area in the world —this book travels to Puerto Rico and Greece to explore inter-connections between Afro-Caribbean and Roma-European sociality. My original reading braids a theoretical engagement with the concept of creolization (unpredictable contact/mixture) together with a deep consideration of the particular contexts surrounding resistance to anti-Blackness, anti-Roma racism, and the colonization of Puerto Rico.

I also currently co-facilitate the Columbus Community Abolition Collective (CCAC), the Black Rhetoric and Culture Collective (BRCC), and engage with both the Puerto Rican independence movement and the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture,