Writing

Even knowing the impossibility of “reconstituting the past free from the disfigurements of present concerns,” as Saidiya Hartman describes, my scholarship aims to disrupt and recontextualize the highly mediated narratives of U.S. power and empire, at home and abroad. I have written on topics ranging from the myth of American exceptionalism to marginalized historical landscapes for such outlets as Frieze, the Los Angeles Review of Books, ARTnews, the Brooklyn Rail, and Social Text journal. I have presented my scholarship on memorial museums, Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Kang’s concept of refusing research, and coloniality in mass media at the Rhode Island School of Design, Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, and Bard College, among others. In 2023, I was a Hyperallergic Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators finalist.

Selected articles

“What makes a family?” Times Union, July 22, 2024
“In the Room,” an exhibition brochure for CPW Kingston, June 6, 2023
“For the People,” Monument Lab Bulletin, February 28, 2022
“Stephanie Syjuco’s Tale of Two Americas,” Frieze magazine, May 2021
“A Past That Is Not Past,” the Brooklyn Rail, November 2020
“Saying Her Name: What monuments to Sojourner Truth can teach us about representing Black lives,” Social Text journal, October 2020
“How Will We Remember This Moment?” Los Angeles Review of Books, April 2020