Education
Gender Studies, PhD
UCLA, 2022
Dissertation: “Rotiskenra:kete: Violence and the Anti-Colonial”
Ethnic Studies, MA
UC San Diego, 2012
Thesis: “Unsettling the Archive: Dis-imagining Colonial Subjects to Reimagine Knowledge
Production”
English,BA
SUNY College at Brockport, 2022
Psychology minor
Select Awards
President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022-24)
UC Santa Barbara,
Department of English
Office of the President Dissertation Year Fellowship (2021-22)
UCLA, Department of Graduate Education
American Indian Studies Center Director’s Fellowship (2019-20)
UCLA, American Indian Studies Center
Select Presentations
2023
Native American & Indigenous Studies Association
“Refusing Death: Indigenous and Black Revenge and Relationality”
2021
Native American & Indigenous Studies Association
“Vengeance is Ecstasy: The Anti-Colonial in Indigenous Cultural Production”
2018
American Studies Association
“Violence and Pleasure: Indigenous Cultural Production and Anti-Colonial Subjectivity’
2014
Native American & Indigenous Studies Association
“Seeing Red: An Anti-Colonial Aesthetic of Embodied and Performed Sovereignty”
Select Invited Talks
2023
“Anti-Colonial Representations of Revenge: Indigenous Cultural Production Meets Mental Health”
2022
“Violence in the Indigenous Imagination”
2020
“Indigenous Representations of Revenge”
2017
“Why Representations of Violence in Indigenous Cultural Production Matter.”