College & Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

Research looking at late nineteenth century uses of informal, marriage-like relationships to navigate changing economic contexts and divorce and inheritance laws in Mexico and Guatemala

With GGR support, I plan to investigate nineteenth-century Iberian and Latin American periodicals at the Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE).

This project uses the many religious sites in the red cypress forest of Alishan to investigate conceptions of human and nonhuman personhood in twentieth century Taiwan.

Historical records attest the Bight of Biafra as a significant European entrepôt during the Trans-Atlantic period.

This project seeks to revitalize study of the intimate as a critical site for the humanistic study of empire and its postcolonial legacies.

This project wishes to shed light on authors who have been purposefully forgotten from literary history (Suzanne Giroust de Morency, Elizabeth Guénard, Félicité de Choiseul-Meuse), who emancipated their expression on sexuality from the libertine novel and created a genre of their own.

Three major corporations came out of the Arkansas Ozarks in the mid-twentieth century: Walmart, Tyson Foods, and J.B. Hunt.

My book offers a critique of this ideal of transparency by turning to a global collection of African and African diasporic writers who reimagined ideals of ethical and equitable relations by revaluing opacity, nebulosity, unreadability, and the non-revelatory in their novels, poetry, and art.

This CGII Center Grant supports the next phase of targeted field research in the South Asian nation of Bhutan.

As part of a book in progress on the social and geographic proximities of the queer performance and activist cultures of downtown New York City in the 1970s, I will be conducting research in the Downtown Collection of the Fales Library, New York University.