Area of Interest:

Changes in racial and class-based identities in the U.S., environmentalism, perspectives and conceptions of nature

Research & Activities:

Entered the program in 1999.

Education: Northewstern University, B.S. 1990.

Research Interests: Broadly, I am interested in processes of change in racial and class-based identities in the United States as they are occurring in particular fields of action and experience. For my dissertation project I am examining these processes with regard to the environment as a particular field of action and experience. I aim to study the intersection of racial and class identities and environmental concerns and actions. My general research question asks, Under what conditions does race matter in feelings and expressions of concern for nature? To examine this question I focus on how at both the collective and individual levels environmental perspectives and conceptions of nature vary and change among black Americans. My goal is to identify and describe processes of race- and nature-making in the contemporary post civil rights period.

Publications and Major Papers:
2001.  "Beyond Environmental Racism: An Examination of the Tensions and Contradictions in the U.S. Environmental Justice Movement." Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meetings. Atlanta, GA.

2001.  "A Post Civil Rights Movement: Shades of Green in the Environmental Justice Movement" Fourth Semester Paper.