I am Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley and the author of Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) and Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa (Duke University Press).
I study Black people's lived experience of racial capitalism and underdevelopment. My research, both in Jamaica and Tulsa, OK, has been centrally concerned with the question of reparations as a means of understanding the historical constitution, but also the future, of Blackness as a lived experience and political project. Through analyses of injury, violence, repair, debt, and a critique of community, my work advances radical and productive reparative frameworks. I am currently working on my third book project that serves as an explicit examination of these themes.
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Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography
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