Projects

My dissertation focuses on cultural production in the aftermath of the global 2008 social and financial crisis in Spain.

On June 28, 1941 Nazi soldiers literally paraded into Minsk, the capital of Soviet Belarus, and began posting orders around the city.

In many newly emerging democracies, incumbent leaders use their control over election administration to gain unfair advantages at the ballot box.

I am currently working on documentary films from within and outside of France that address trauma suffered by migrants and asylum seekers in Europe.

As part of the field research for my master's thesis in Comparative Politics, I will be traveling to Israel this summer with a fellowship from Hebrew University.

My research focuses on French nuclear cinema and aims to reframe the way we think about nuclear movies.

I will travel to either the Sierra Gorda in Mexico or Tucson, Arizona, both sites of architecturally significant Spanish missions built by Franciscan friars in the 18th century.

Besides disseminating specific new electronic Paraguayan initiatives among United States institutions, this first encounter will provide the opportunity to delineate possible future collaborations to open new primary resources to Latin Americanist around the world.

Over the summer I will be investigating how videos of policing made by law enforcement and ordinary people are being introduced into French judicial proceedings.

This project will create an interdisciplinary and international research-education working group constituted by educators from universities, industry and NGO in US and China, to develop a multi-sited study that address the tangled geopolitics of innovation, sustainability and standardization of smart cities in the US-China context.