My research meets at the nexus of US history, Afro-Indigenous Studies, urban studies, and contemporary popular culture. Although trained as a historian, I am a transdisciplinary scholar and use a variety of methods to explore different research questions. Using archives, oral histories, cultural studies, and ethnography of communication, my research explores the relationship between blackness and indigeneity in history, popular culture, and urban spaces.

I have published widely on race, indigeneity, urban studies, and popular culture. Believing in the Black Studies mantra of “academic excellence and social responsibility,” I also think it is imperative that I contribute to the public good through a variety of public writings, workshops, and other forms of work that help us think and hopefully act differently in the world.