This work examines western characters at the intersection of coloniality, gender, and modernity in Arab contemporary novels. Westerners visiting the Arab world in Aswāt by Egyptian Suleiman Fayyād, I, the Divine: A novel in First Chapters by Lebanese Rabih Alameddine, Maryam al …
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This dissertation examines how the production of scientific knowledges has been entangled with the making of inter-generational, environmental, interspecies, and memory (in)justices in Austral Patagonia, 1920s-1940s. I have studied science and more-than-human colonialism in Tier…
Unsettling the Coloniality of Voice proposes that aligning voice with sound and the human has been a central component of the colonial project of modernity. While sight and seeing have been primary sites of analysis in much critical historical work, my research historicizes how …
The dissertation, titled “Take Care and Venerate”: Morenita, Excessive Personhood, and Devotedness in a Puerto Rican Family, explores one question: how religious objects are theological. Using the historical polemics around images (such as idolatry and iconoclasm), scholarship o…
“Towards a Theory of Digital Necropolitics,” elucidates the intersection of technology, human rights, aesthetics, and testimony through representations of the dead, dying, disappeared, or wounded body. Theorizing interventions into "Digital Necropolitics” highlights how the digi…
Public Health’s dominant focus on white opioid users coupled with a colorblind ideology has resulted in the reiteration of racially stratified public health discussions, strategies, initiatives, and treatment both nationally and in the Pittsburgh region. This case study uses dis…
This dissertation seeks to introduce a new approach to the analysis of men’s violence and masculinities in the context of the United States. I focus on the concept of control—understood here as a spectrum of interrelated modes of violence that assert mastery over the self and ot…