Hello!
I am a Visiting Assistant Professor in the department of Theatre and Dance at UC Davis. I earned my PhD in Theatre Arts & Performance Studies at Brown University, from which I also hold MA degrees in History and Theatre Arts & Performance Studies. My manuscript project, Consuming Crises: Migrant Labor, Spectacle, and Precarity in the 20th Century, focuses on crises of extractive capitalism as they relate to the migrant, laboring body. Broadly, I am interested in investigating how people move, work, and breathe under capitalism. I use the intersecting methods of dance studies, critical race theory, performance historiography, and political economy to approach this work. I am an educator who has taught theatre & performance theory, studio-based explorations of performance and practice, and performance historiography, in addition to persuasive communication, public speaking, interpersonal communication, and communication theory. Previously, I have been a Research Justice at the Intersections Fellow at Mills College (Oakland, CA), a lecturer at the University of California San Diego in the department of Theatre & Dance, and a Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor at Northeastern University in the Communication Studies department.
My teaching and research has been strengthened by my co-curricular work as a spiritual care clinician. I earned my certificate in Interreligious Chaplaincy at the Graduate Theological Union (Berkeley, CA) as a Jewish Studies Fellow. I completed my chaplain residency training at UCSF Medical Center in 2022, having served as the primary chaplain in adult hematology/oncology. There, I conducted auto-ethnographic research pertaining to spiritual responses to crises and inquiries into questions of intimacies and serious illness. My multidisciplinary teaching and research continue to benefit from my clinical experience as an inpatient hospital chaplain and I look forward to furthering the field of serious illness communication and spiritual care studies through my research on the infrastructure of health care through the lens of chaplaincy.
As a practitioner, I am a choreographer, dancer, curator, and theatre producer. I've trained with the American Conservatory Theater, the Alvin Ailey School, the Joffrey Ballet School, Mark Morris Dance Group, Janice Garrett and Dancers, Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Collective, L'Ecole Superieuse de Danse in Cannes, and was a member of the pre-professional company of ODC/Dance for six years. A proud San Franciscan, I was born and raised in the SF Bay Area and earned my undergraduate degree in History from Stanford University in 2013. My favorite color is orange.
CV
My CV as of spring 2024 can be found here.