black studies scholar
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interdisciplinary writer
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I'm a black studies scholar and interdisciplinary writer/thinker/creator. I earned my PhD in the Modern Thought and Literature program at Stanford University in 2025 and am currently serving as a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
My intellectual commitments include Black Feminist Theory and Praxis, the Black Radical Tradition, Studies of the World-Wide African Diaspora (including literature, philosophy, history, politics and culture).
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View recent publications across genres.
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book project
​My in progress monograph, preemptively titled Sylvia Wynter and Black Study: Experiments in Metasystemic Inquiry and Transcalar Reworlding, fills this critical gap by reconstructing the architectonic metanarrative that unfolds across fifty years of Wynter’s philosophical corpus.
It advances the claim that her corpus constitutes one of the most ambitious and sustained attempts in modern thought to reimagine the human through a meta-systemic and transcalar framework—and it offers scholars an easy entry point into Wynter’s thought, which is notoriously dense.​
methodological and political commitments
I had reached a stage in my intellectual development where political and historical analysis no longer felt sufficient. Which is to say, this project burgeoned out of my existential discontentment with merely understanding how the last 500 years of human history played out. The question that preoccupied me is how can we make sense of the fact that our species has arrived at a point of astonishing intellectual aptitude, while simultaneously exacerbating social, political, and economic systems based in brute violence, irreversible annihilation, and unprecedented disparities in resource distribution and quality of life? This is not just a question of how power has been formulated and reformulated in the modern epoch to produce the most sophisticated global system of domination to date—it is also a question of why. Why elicits a different register of thought than how. Why do we find ourselves in this particular version of the present? What would it take to end the cycle of brutality in favor of more sustainable political, social, and economic systems that provision collective human and planetary wellness?
“The task of the-first century
is the task […] of inventing a social order
based on reciprocal recognition
and the reciprocal conferring of human value.”
Sylvia Wynter
Black Metamorphosis
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Elegy for Sudan’s Martyrs: Toward a Poetic Discourse of the Nile
as a Site of Resistance and Repression
Association of the Worldwide African Diaspora Conference
Frames of Imagination: Bridging Worlds between Ethnography and Fiction
World Anthropological Union Congress Conference
(with Dr. Eman Shehata and Dr. Amina Alaoui Soulimani)
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Making and Unmaking the World: Sylvia Wynter, Metanarrative,
and Decolonial Epistemologies
Stanford University, Program in Modern Thought and Literature
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Seeding the First Consensual Encounter between African Descendants
and the Amazonian 'Yawanawa' Tribe
University of California, Berkeley, Psychedelic Reckoning Conference
Is Hope a Madness? Conjuring Hope in Times of Catastrophe
Furious Flower Poetry Conference, James Madison University
(with Ariel Ward and Dr. Ra Malika Imhotep)
Polydisciplinarity in Black Emergent Thought
Graduate Orientations to Black Studies by Black Studies Collective
Black Feminist Methods and the Combahee River Collective Statement
Salon curated by the Essayists Collective
“Dear Alice” a Black Girl in the Archive: the Speculative Interior World
Colloquium for UPENN’s McNeil Center for Early American Studies
Uteropolitics: Abortion Bans from American Slavery to ICE Detention
Anti-Racist + Anti-Fascist Pedagogies in the Age of Trump and Bolsonaro
American Studies Association Annual Conference, Honolulu HA
Sudan’s Torture Sites: A Ghost House Genealogy
Northern California Sudanese Association Conference, UC Berkeley
Infanticide and the Infant's Corpse: Enslaved Women’s Reproductive Lives”
UC Berkeley Annual St. Claire Drake Research Symposium
Arada’s Knotted Rope: A Spectroscopic Object Analysis of Materialized Maternity
Princeton Annual African and African American Studies Conference
Talks and Symposia
“I should constantly
remind myself that the real leap
consists in introducing invention
into existence.”
Franz Fanon
Black Skin. White Masks
