Collaborative Research
Currently, I am a co-founder of three research groups funded by the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University.
Border Studies Working Group
The Border Studies Working Group (BSWG) seeks to engage in critical discussion and materials as it pertains to topics related to borders, the borderlands, migration, and mobility. We approach the notion of borders as liminal and contested spaces through which regimes of governance organize movement, visibility, violence, and power across local, national, and transnational scales. The Border Studies Working Group is thus interested in, but not limited to, questions of migration, surveillance, racialization, infrastructure, sovereignty, diaspora, and citizenship. As an interdisciplinary working group, we invite students from across a broad spectrum of fields, including environmental studies, technology studies, and critical race studies, to partake in our group events and discussions.
Computational Ecologies Working Group
The Computational Ecologies Working Group is an interdisciplinary graduate working group that seeks to examine the relationships between technology, environment, infrastructure, sensation, and aesthetics across contemporary digital life. Interested in, but not limited to, questions of computation, surveillance, ecology, racialized cartographies, media, extraction, artificial intelligence, infrastructure, sensory technologies, and digital environments, the Computational Ecologies Working Group explores how technological systems shape experiences of perception, space, embodiment, and social life. Bringing together perspectives from Media Studies, Critical Race Studies, Science and Technology Studies, and Visual Studies/Art History, we seek to foster interdisciplinary conversations around the material, ecological, and aesthetic dimensions of contemporary technological systems.
Contemporary Art in Latin America
This student-led working group explores how contemporary exhibitions, curators, and artists engage with and respond to pressing debates around race, coloniality, gender, and environmental crisis in the Latin American context. Through dialogue with researchers and contemporary Latin American artists, we encourage interdisciplinary reflection on how art shapes, responds to, and challenges the contemporary World.
Border Studies Working Group
The Border Studies Working Group (BSWG) seeks to engage in critical discussion and materials as it pertains to topics related to borders, the borderlands, migration, and mobility. We approach the notion of borders as liminal and contested spaces through which regimes of governance organize movement, visibility, violence, and power across local, national, and transnational scales. The Border Studies Working Group is thus interested in, but not limited to, questions of migration, surveillance, racialization, infrastructure, sovereignty, diaspora, and citizenship. As an interdisciplinary working group, we invite students from across a broad spectrum of fields, including environmental studies, technology studies, and critical race studies, to partake in our group events and discussions.
Computational Ecologies Working Group
The Computational Ecologies Working Group is an interdisciplinary graduate working group that seeks to examine the relationships between technology, environment, infrastructure, sensation, and aesthetics across contemporary digital life. Interested in, but not limited to, questions of computation, surveillance, ecology, racialized cartographies, media, extraction, artificial intelligence, infrastructure, sensory technologies, and digital environments, the Computational Ecologies Working Group explores how technological systems shape experiences of perception, space, embodiment, and social life. Bringing together perspectives from Media Studies, Critical Race Studies, Science and Technology Studies, and Visual Studies/Art History, we seek to foster interdisciplinary conversations around the material, ecological, and aesthetic dimensions of contemporary technological systems.
Contemporary Art in Latin America
This student-led working group explores how contemporary exhibitions, curators, and artists engage with and respond to pressing debates around race, coloniality, gender, and environmental crisis in the Latin American context. Through dialogue with researchers and contemporary Latin American artists, we encourage interdisciplinary reflection on how art shapes, responds to, and challenges the contemporary World.
