Environmental justice; Food and Agriculture; Sustainability; Racial Politics; and Critical theory
I am a human geographer whose work examines the politics of nature, particularly issues surrounding food, agriculture, and land conservation. My research in the US South analyzes the ways that the racial and class dynamics of the plantation past are reproduced in the present, and argues that any meaningful abolition of this legacy will require fundamentally reshaping property relations.
Portions of this work have been funded by, among others, the National Science Foundation, the American Association of Geographers, and the Harvard Center for the Study of Capitalism. I have published this research in the journals Antipode, Geoforum, Geography Compass, and Progress in Human Geography.
Ph.D., Geography and Integrative Conservation
University of Georgia (2016)