Department of Language and Cultural Studies
EDUCATION:
2020, PhD, Culture and Performance, UCLA
2015, MA, Culture and Performance, UCLA
2009, BA, Anthropology, UCLA
Dissertation: Komfa Work: Ritualizing Racecraft and Nation in Guyana’s Spiritualist Faiths. University of California, Los Angeles, 2020.
Recognized with the Caribbean Studies Association's Best Dissertation Award, 2022. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6qv9s45r
PUBLICATIONS (selected):
"Reimagining Borders curated by Clairmont Chung." African Arts 57, no. 1 (2024): 80–84.
(with Joan Cambridge-Mayfield), “Ancestral Intervention for Guyana.” Anthropology News (August 9, 2023).
Ancestral Intervention for Guyana - Anthropology News (anthropology-news.org)
"'Put the Brassiere on the Cross': Performing 'Spanish' Fem(me)ininities and Sexualities through Komfa in Guyana." New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 97, no. 3-4 (2023): 255-288.
"(NHI)*." Anthropology & Humanism 46, no. 1 (2021).
"Manifest Heritages of Family and Nation: Embodying 'All the Ancestors' in Guyanese Komfa." Journal of Africana Religions 8, no. 2 (2020): 232-265.
"Cubans in Guyana: Peripheral Economies Transact." International Journal of Cuban Studies 11, no. 1 (2019): 8-12.
"Three Golden Shovels." African American Review 52, no. 4 (2019): 394-395.
"Inherited 'Ancestors’ Collections' of a Devoted Curator: The Museum of African Heritage in Georgetown, Guyana." Karib–Nordic Journal for Caribbean Studies 4, no. 1 (2018).
"Wild Child/Wail Chail." Postcolonial Text 13, no. 3 (2018).
Also see: JUST 3 PEOPLE TALKING – Timehri Film Festival 2023 Opening Programme (timehrifilmfestival.com)