I am currently working on my first book project titled
On the Range and Under the Radar. It is an ethnographic and archival study of bat scientists in Texas. It is a study of place-making and knowledge-making.
A piece of this book project, one that explores what the state of Texas is going to do about a million bats living in a dilapidated warehouse owned by the Texas prison system and threatening a public health crisis, was shortlisted for the Rapapport Graduate Student prize for the Anthropology and Environment Section at the American Anthropology Association in 2024. A short version appears in
a blog post on Engagements. A longer, article-length version is currently under review. I am working on another article from this work about the problem of "getting access" in Texas between oppressive property and data regimes.
This research also inspired
the collaborative piece "Apertures all the way down" between myself and Emily Lee, a writer and artist based in Texas. This appeared in the
Climate Interiors issue of
LIMN.
I also published an article called
"Lone Star Futures" in Public Books inspired by my participation in the work of the
Refusing to Forget project. I worked primarily on the
2023 public history project on the racial violence of the Texas Rangers.
I am starting a new project on biosecurity, borders, and animal diseases. In it, I examine the management of old and new animal illnesses that plague historical and contemporary separatist states, from Texas to Alberta. A piece adjacent to this work, an essay about the eradication Screwworm in Texas in the 1960s, is under preparation as part of a collection on the "Frontiers of Disgust."
I used to write more about the body. My
essay on leakiness appeared in The New Inquiry in 2017. I am now working on an collaborative project about historical memory and the Québec sovereignty movement in Montréal.