Welcome! I am a geographer and political ecologist, an Assistant Professor at the School of World Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University. My interdisciplinary research examines pipeline opposition movements in the central United States and the ways in which they have transformed the politics of climate justice. This research intervenes in debates in the theoretical social sciences concerning populism and democracy in relation to infrastructure politics, race and racism, and settler colonialism. I argue that while a form of environmental populism challenges the climate movement's history of elitism, it also remakes hierarchies of race, class, and nation to compose its political subjects. This research project forms part of my broader interest in feminism, Marxism, and political theory, as well as the  importance of understanding the ways in which space, ecology, and nature are enrolled in social projects of oppression or liberation. 

The gritty details: I hold a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Macalester College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Minnesota. I have solo and collectively authored publications in the journals Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, The Annals of the American Association of Geographers, the edited volume Museum Activism, and the magazines Miami Rail, The New Inquiry, and Jacobin. I have a few more pieces hopefully out soon in the books The Routledge International Handbook of Gender and Feminist Geographies​, A Place More Void, and Capitalism and the Earth. 

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