Photo Credit: Roderick E. Jackson
PhD Student
"We had a where before we had race. " -me
EDUCATION
AB Mount Holyoke College
Black Geographies, Summa Cum Laude (2018)
High Honors Thesis: Mapping House and Black Bodies: Place-Making in the Black House Music and Cultural Community of Chicago
AGS Harold Washington College
Associate in General Studies, Honors (2015)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Chicago Metropolitan Area (Black Chicagoaspora), Black Geographies, Scale, Geo-ethnography, Geomusicology (house music/house culture and rap/hip hop), Black Popular Culture (1970s-2000s), Black Post-Civil Rights Generation, Black Generational Geographies, Urban-Regional Political Economy, Black Womanist/Feminist Thought and Praxis, Afro-Caribbean Thought, Black Cultural Studies
CONFERENCES AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS
"Black Scale: Methodologies of Emplacing the Intersection" with Robert Moeller. Feminist Research Methods and Intersectionality I & II, American Association of Geographers, Seattle (2021)
“Still Sweatin': Spatializing Intersectional Identities and Place-Branding Within the Black House Music and Cultural Community in Chicago” Engaged Scholarship and Social Justice Undergraduate Research Conference, Harvard College (2018)
“Still Sweatin': Spatializing Intersectional Identities and Place-Branding Within the Black House Music and Cultural Community in Chicago” Space, Place, and Music: New Research in the Study of Geography and Music, American Association of Geographers Conference, New Orleans (2018)
Black Matters are Spatial Matters panel, American Association of Geographers Conference, New Orleans (2018)
TEACHING and RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIPS
Mount Holyoke College, Graduate Teaching and Research Consultant (Dr. Preston H. Smith II)
- Africana Studies/Politics: Black Metropolis: From MLK to Obama (Fall 2020)
The University of California, Berkeley, Graduate Student Researcher (Dr. Jovan Scott Lewis)
- Forthcoming project concerned with the structural and infrastructural frictions of poverty in Tulsa, Oklahoma (June 2020-Present)
The University of California, Berkeley, Graduate Student Reader (Dr. Jovan Scott Lewis)
- Race, Space, and Inequality (Spring 2020)
Mount Holyoke College, Teaching and Research Assistant (Dr. Preston H. Smith II)
- Africana Studies/Politics: Black Metropolis: From MLK to Obama (2015-2019)
SELECT AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS
The University of California, Berkeley
Department of Geography Summer Grant (2021)
Mentored Research Fellowship (2021-2022)
Department of Geography Summer Grant (2020)
Chancellor’s Fellowship for Graduate Study (2019-Present)
Mount Holyoke College
Mary Lyon Scholar (2018)
Phi Beta Kappa Prize Winner (2018)
William Randolph Hearst Foundation Scholar (2015-2018)
Geography Senior Fieldwork Fellowship Award (2017, 2018)
Africana Studies Fellowship Award (2018)
Dean of Students Conference Grant (2017, 2018)
Barbara Benson '33 Memorial Prize (2017)
Public Leadership Education Network Leadership Grant Recipient (2016)
Frances Perkins Scholarship (2015-2018)
Roger W. Bardwell Scholarship (2015-2018)
Harold Washington College
Friends of Harold Washington College Graduation Award (2015)
Presidential Scholar (2014)
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Black Geographies Specialty Group within the American Association of Geographers
Graduate Student Representative (June 2020-Present)
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program
Graduate Student Mentor (November 2020-May 2021)
MEMBERSHIPS
Society of Ethnomusicology
Member (March 2021-Present)
Phi Beta Kappa
Member, Theta Chapter of Massachusetts (May 2018-Present)
American Association of Geographers
Member (October 2016-Present)
ADVISORS