Dissertation topic:
My dissertation examines fraternity as a practice of empire-building in the late-eighteenth and early nineteenth-century French colonial empires.
Research methods:
Archival research, textual and visual analysis, queer and feminist theory...
In his 2005 commencement address Steve Jobs stated, “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future...”
I couldn’t find a truer statement to...
When I was at Harvard, my senior thesis examined the menstrual cycle from the perspective of both Biological Anthropology and Women’s Studies. Now, I'm an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, where I run an intersectional...
When I entered Harvard as a freshman, I thought I would major in the biological sciences. Two Life Sciences courses later, however, it became clear that I was much more interested in the social and political implications of scientific practices than in...
Dissertation topic:
My research is located in the fields of trans studies, queer theory, psychoanalysis, and gender theory. I am interested in analyzing representations of the body, with specific attention to the rhetoric and methods that appear in...
Dissertation topic:
Gender & Terrorism in the Former British Colonies, 1800-Present
Research methods:
Transnational History/ thematic histories; Archival research (including textual analysis); Interviews/Oral History
Areas of interest:
Political Violence...
In my first semester at Harvard, I took a class with Dr. Sarah Richardson about our post-genomic society. The seminar inspired me to joint concentrate in WGS and History and Science. I wrote my thesis with Dr. Sheila Jasanoff (in the HKS program on...
When I graduated from Harvard College in 2000 with a joint concentration in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality (called Women’s Studies back then) and History of Science, I actually hid my diploma from my mom so she wouldn’t see. I hadn’t actually...
Questions of how gender and sexuality operate over time in different cultural contexts have driven my academic research and community involvement. My published work has analyzed a wide range of spaces and popular performances, including the acrylic nail...
In my first semester at Harvard, I took a course called “Black Feminist Thought,” taught by then Visiting Professor Devonya Havis. Like most of my subsequent WGS courses, “Black Feminist Thought” was a small seminar, marked by rich, robust, and...
