I am a human-cultural geographer and part-time faculty member at Columbus State University. My research examines the politics of memory in the USA and Brazil with special focus on the residues of slavery and settler colonialism as worked out through raising, taking down, and changing monuments and memorials to white supremacists, enslavers, torturers, war criminals, dictators, and other unsavory historical figures.
Experience
2020–present
Assistant Professor, Columbus State University
Education
2020
University of Tennessee, Doctor of Philosophy in Geography
2016
Oklahoma State University, Master's of Science in Geography
Publications
2020
Journal of Heritage Tourism, Creating 'Confederate pioneers': a spatial narrative analysis of race, settler colonialism, and heritage tourism at the Museu da Imigraçao, Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, São Paulo
2018
Social & Cultural Geography, Was Tulsa's Brady Street really renamed? Racial (in)justice, memory-work, and neoliberalism's mandate of least disruption.
2017
Papers in Applied Geography, Applying critical race and memory studies to university place naming controversies: toward a responsible landscape policy.