Humanities

The Italian landscape has for centuries been a locus amoenus of male same-sex desire.

My project focuses on analyzing indigenous subjecthood in the Spanish Empire through examination of the Tehuantepec rebellion of 1660-1661.

My doctoral project examines the complex legal and social attitudes towards women who committed 'reproductive crimes' such as infanticide and abortion in colonial India.

This project develops new visions for futurities directly informed from Nahua multidimensionality concepts of time traveling and re-envisioning futuristic indigenous migrant resiliency.

Throughout antiquity, alcohol belonged to private and public realms, devotional and everyday settings.

Moving beyond the primacy of the optical, reproducibility and “surfacism” in understanding photography (Pinney, 2003), the exhibition will offer new vantage points to approach the medium making visible the haptic, gendered, material and decolonial dimensions of photographs. 

Rebuilding Civil Society, Embedding Democratic Roots will examine the processes by which advocates in Zimbabwe are attempting to rebuild a grassroots democratic culture.

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.