Teaching/Learning Specialization Areas at the College Level
I have completed qualifying exams at the PhD level in: Embodiment Studies, Science and Technology Studies (with particular focus on the medical humanities), and Theater and Performance Studies. I specialize in decolonial praxis in scholarship. I am particularly interested in decolonizing the capitalist, liberal, scientific, cissexist, white supremacist, and secular myth we call the Anatomical Body. I am currently ABD in the Integrative Studies Program at Brown University
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I hold a Masters degree in Theatre Arts and Performance Studies specializing my qualifying project on possession trance as anticivilizational praxis (Brown University)
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I hold a Masters degree in Reception Studies specializing my thesis on anti-orientalist receptions of the ancient mediterranean and modern Middle East (University College London)
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I hold a Bachelors degree in Liberal Arts, specializing my thesis on non-western and decolonized poetics through a multimedia lens (Goddard College)
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Community Education and Radical Pedagogy
Freelance Community Organizing Workshop Facilitation Experience:
+Consent and Communication (specifically for middle school+high school aged children)
+Media and Communications Training for Non Profit Organizations
+Anti-Oppression Cultures for Non Profit Organizations
+Teacher/Trainer's Training for Non Profit Organizations
+The Histories of Policing and Rioting
+ Non Violence as Tactical Direct Action
+Know Your Rights (for demonstrators and protestors)
Social Justice Movement Organizing Training:
Anti-Oppression Organizing Workshop, Common Ground, facilitated by Lisa Fithian. Dec 2011
Know-Your-Rights Trainer’s Training, National Lawyers Guild. Nov 2011.
Movement Campaigns Training, Greenpeace USA. NY, NY. 2008.
Non-Violent Direct Action and Communication, RAN (Rainforest Action Network), February 2008.
Dance Collaborations
Salt & Light: An Interfaith Convergence (Ongoing). First Convergence June 9-13 2022, Northern California with collaborator Dr. Doria Charlson, PhD
Publications
"What is the Opposite of the Body?" Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2025
"Whose Machines? A Sufi Dancer's Perspective on Decolonizing Performance and Technology." The Routledge Companion to Performance and Science. Routledge. Forthcoming 2024
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Beyond the Periphery of the Skin: Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism, by Sylvia Federici. Women & Performance. May 2021.
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The Privileges and Pitfalls of Show and Tell. Grub Street. August 25, 2015.
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First Note: On Solidarity. The Militant Research Handbook. Visual Culture Now!, NYU Steinhardt. 2013.
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Conference Presentations & Papers
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“Capitalism in Convergence: Somatic Experiences of Wearable Tech Devices” Featured Panelist, Digital Touch: Technology, Performance, & (Dis)Embodiment. UCLA TAPS Grad Conference Contact: Performing Proximity. February 2021.
Working Group Convener: "Growing Out of Repetition: Aging as Method and Praxis."American Society for Theatre Research Working Group, New Orleans 2020.
“Cyborg Performance in the Not-So-Distant Present: Tracing the tangles of identity, technology, and bodily practice” Paper Presentation. American Society for Theatre Research Conference, 2019. Alexandria, VA.
“Mutual Aid on the Ground,” Chair/Panelist. Left Forum 2014, June 1st, 2014. NY, NY.
“Occupying Gender.” Featured Panelist. Left Forum 2012, March 2012. NY, NY
“Occupy Wall Street & Anti-Oppression” Featured Panelist, Vassar College. November 2011. Poughkeepsie, NY.
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Awards, Grants, and Fellowships
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Graduate Student Travel Award. Dance Studies Association. Awarded 2022. (Total Amount $500)
Thomas Marshall Graduate Student Award.American Society for Theatre Research. Awarded 2019. (Total Amount $800)
Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities. 4-Year Fellowship. Awarded 2016. Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University. (Total Amount $120,000+)