I am an interdisciplinary scholar of African American History, Critical Carceral Studies, and Black Social and Political Thought. I received my PhD from Harvard in 2017, and served as ACLS-Mellon Public Fellow in New Orleans and as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University's Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs. This fall, I will join the faculty at the University of California, Davis, as Assistant Professor of African American & African Studies. I am at work on my first book, a history of race, incarceration, and American empire, under contract with The New Press.