Assistant Professor, Sociology and Criminology

Biography

My research interests focus on struggles for racial justice and racial domination in the United States in the 20th and 21st century. I use historical sociological methods to uncover processes of mobilization and counter-mobilization in Black social movements.

My current research project attempts to uncover early 20th century strategies and ideologies undergirding the NAACP’s efforts to end lynching and racial violence and to uncover archival questions that unsettle contemporary theories around social movement emergence.

Why Africana Studies

Africana studies as an intellectual legacy and an interdisciplinary approach to the Black diaspora is essential to understand the historical trajectories, modes of thought, and social movements within the African diaspora.

As a sociologist of race, I understand the necessity of being in thoughtful and constant dialogue with Black scholarship within and beyond sociology.

This is why I’m excited to be a part of the Africana Studies program at the University of New Mexico.