I work at the intersection of political theory, global political economy, African and African diaspora studies, critical theories of space, and social movements in Africa and the Americas. My book, Ruptures in the Afterlife of the Apartheid City (2024), explores how shack dwellers in South Africa are confronting the persistent legacy of spatial segregation by experimenting with novel modes of political organization. It intervenes in theoretical debates on questions of transition, rupture, development, precarity, autonomy, race, and class. In so doing, Ruptures deprovincializes Durban, South Africa by arguing for the national, continental, and international significance of radical movement struggles in the city. I am currently working on two concurrent projects examining the intellectual history and geography of “the Dar es Salaam school” in Tanzania, and on a genealogy of the idea of racial capitalism. I am a member of the editorial collective for the journal Antipode, a contributing editor for Transforming Anthropology. and a hub faculty member of the University of California system-wide Marxist Institute for Research (MIR).

Research Interests

political geography, political theory, racial regimes, global capitalism, africa, african diaspora, the americas, middle east, indian ocean, intellectual history & geography, marxism, cultural studies, comparative anti-systemic movements, black radical tradition, global black geographies, peace and conflict studies

Education

PhD, Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
BA, Program in Literature, Duke University