I am an interdisciplinary scholar, writer, and curator focused on memory, culture, and politics.

I’m currently at work on two new book projects. The first (nonfiction) examines the relationship between memory and democracy and explores how memory interventions aim to reframe our understanding of the lived experience, legacies, and future histories of racialized, gendered violence in the Northern Americas. The second (fiction) is a novel focused on the lives of those who live, and what it means to carve new futures amidst the ruins of history.

I am the author of Mapping Memory: Visuality, Affect, and Embodied Politics in the Americas (2019), and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023). My writing can also be found in Memory Studies, Genocide Studies and Prevention, TDR: The Drama Review, Journal of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Journal of Spanish and Latin American Cinemas, Human Rights Review, in various anthologies, and elsewhere.

I am an Associate Professor of Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory and Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona, and affiliate faculty in the School of Art and the Human Rights Practice Program.

For the 2026-2027 academic year, I am a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia.

Education:
Ph.D. New York University, 2013
M.A. New York University, 2009
B.A. University of California, Santa Cruz, 2002

Research, Teaching, and Advising Areas:
Memory studies, culture and politics, genocide and atrocity prevention, performance studies, visual culture, hemispheric American studies, young adult literature, qualitative methods, social and cultural analysis.