Academia

I am an expert scholar on race, domestic security, and political communication and strategy.

I earned my Ph.D. in Black Studies x Political Science at Northwestern University, complemented by certificates in Comparative Race and Diaspora, Critical Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Teaching. My academic journey also included a dual Ph.D. doctoral exchange fellowship in the Department of Philosophy at École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

As an interdisciplinary scholar, my work and teaching traverse the intersections of political communication and strategy, domestic security, terrorism, counter/intelligence, statecraft, military history, ecological warfare, practices of bureaucracy, policing, political repression, and community resistance. This diverse academic background equips me with a unique perspective to explore and address complex societal issues.

I previously served as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Africana Studies and the Writing Program at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. In this role, I developed and implemented grant-making opportunities that enabled students to study abroad. I designed and led a diverse range of educational excursions both domestically and internationally, focusing on critical topics such as immigration, environmental justice, and histories of prisons, policing, and protest. This diversity of topics aimed to stimulate intellectual curiosity and engage students in meaningful discussions. Additionally, I organized and facilitated on-campus dialogues and invited speakers to foster these discussions.

I am currently conducting two independent research projects, one focused on environmental justice and the other on policing.