I am an anthropologist, musician, creative writer, and professor at the University of Texas-Austin. My academic research has focused on Trinidad, the Caribbean, and questions of justice, science, performance, and Africana religion.
I am currently working on four large projects 1) a book reinterpreting climate change through a Caribbean lens, 2) a multimedia project reconceiving borders through histories of multidirectional Venezuelan migration, 3) a monograph rethinking economic exchange through the philosophical concepts of Africana religions, 4) a work on the ethics of polyrhythm.
Articles and Books
My first book, Experiments with Power, is published by the University of Chicago Press. I edited a special issue of Ethnos on spirit possession and property. I have also published articles in a variety of journals, including Anthropological Quarterly, The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Small Axe, and Method and Theory in the Study of Religion.
Creative Writing
I write poetry at the borders of the political, the ethnographic, and the personal. More recently I have been experimenting with a poetics that joins word, performance, and sound. I have also published poetry in ethnographic and literary journals, samples of which can be found here.