"The Anticolonial Imagination" is an examination of race, migration, politics, and the history of ideas in the interwar period (1919-1939). Based on archival material collected …
“The Melodramatics of Queer Race” is an investigation of media and performance forms dismissed as “minor”—melodramatic, trashy, or kitschy—and their re-valuations by queerly racialized subjects. …
The Nature of Citizenship: Race, Citizenship, and Nature in Representations of Californian Agricultural Labor contends that cultural understandings of nature shaped notions of national belonging …
This dissertation examines the shifts in reproduction, knowledge, and power that remap our notion of "life" in contemporary scientific and popular cultures through the uncanny …