Distributaries

My project builds on the everyday understanding of property by examining how actors interpret it through the language of land rights as they sought to convert tax documents into formal land titles. These processes were driven by activists and residents living on untenured land who invest significant time and political energy engaging with a techno-savvy...

This past summer, with generous funding from the 2025 ERI/PS2 Summer Public Research Fellowship through housed at The Center for the Humanities, I embarked on three transformative research experiences that fundamentally reshaped not just my research trajectory, but my understanding of what scholarship can and should do in the world. Between exploring and leveraging the...

There are (at least) two words in Portuguese for the verb “to play,” jogar and brincar. Both have several different meanings, usages, and connotations, which, for beginners, might be boiled down to something like this: jogaris the more structured play of organized sports, while brincar is the informal play of children.  This summer, studying at...

The summer PS2 fellowship supported my preliminary fieldwork connecting with agricultural commoning projects across our local N.Y. food system. I’ve been interested in “commoning” – diverse and creative approaches to reclaiming and collectively stewarding the “commons” – since I myself was a farmer for years before embarking on my PhD journey. Struggling with the everyday...

Something had shifted between June and October.  That’s all I knew, as I paged through the folder of calm, administrative memos in the Columbia University Archives reading room. Harry’s job was safe in June, and by October, he was fired. But I couldn’t see what had changed. Time to go to Cambridge.  I’m a US...

My scholarship examines how emerging technologies’ shape social welfare systems. Focusing on the politics of data science, digital infrastructures, and ‘tech for good’, I incorporate perspectives informed by the digital humanities and critical data studies. I am particularly interested in understanding digital literacies as resistance to algorithmic technocracy, and I aim to support projects that...

This summer, I applied for the ERI/PS2 summer fellowship to initiate and build out the Riis Beach Bloc Association, in collaboration with other members of the People’s Riisearch Group, as part of an ongoing practice of organizing-as-research-method. Like a block association, we aimed to build bottom-up power, work toward common goals, and build inroads to...

The ERI/PS2 Summer Public Research Fellowship allowed me to continue working on a digital archive called Solidarity TK that aims to tell the story of the last decade of labor organizing within New York City-based news publications. This is a project that originated in the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (ITP) program and continued through a...