I am a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Social Sciences at Humanities Research Council of Canada at York University (Toronto, Ontario).

My research sits at the intersections of performance studies, media studies, and critical ethnic studies. My work broadly explores how the concept of the “multiracial” (or “mixed-race”) performs within twenty-first century North American art and media contexts. Unmooring “mixed-race” from its dominant equivalence with racial self-identification, I examine multiraciality as an aesthetic and political logic apparent across art, popular culture, and the performances of everyday life.

 I am currently working towards my first book, which elaborates on my dissertation research. My dissertation, “Theorizing a Multiracial Choreographic Analytic: Experimental Dance and the Politics of Mixed-Race in the Twenty-First Century,” theorizes and applies an original multiracial choreographic analytic for interpreting twenty-first century US-based experimental dance. Advancing an epistemological position, rather than an ontology, my analytic distills insights from mixed-race discourses into a series of propositions for analyzing elements of the choreographic event (movement techniques, costumes, props), regardless of whether the dance literally depicts multiracial-identified people or recognizable mixed-race themes.

My writing is published or forthcoming in Arts, Dance Chronicle, Performance Matters, The Routledge Handbook of Dance in US Popular Culture, and The Oxford Handbook of Dance Praxis.

I completed my PhD in Culture and Performance in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at the University of California, Los Angeles (December 2024). My dissertation received support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the University of California Humanities Research Institute, the American Society for Theater Research, and the New York Public Library’s Short-Term Research Fellowships. I am a 2019 recipient of the Dance Studies Association’s Selma Jeanne Cohen Award for Graduate Student Excellence and the 2024 runner-up for the Routledge Award from Performance Studies International.