I am an Assistant Professor of Geography in the Department of History & Geography at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia, USA. I am also a Research Fellow with Tourism RESET, a collaborative research initiative doing research on inequity in the tourism industry. I study the politics of commemorating violent and traumatic pasts, and the role of place and memory-work in repairing the wounds of structural violence. My dissertation research analyzed the transnational Confederate memorial landscape, and the complicated nature of commemorating and contesting the commemoration of the Confederacy in Brazil.
Experience
2020–present
Assistant Professor, Columbus State University
Education
2020
University of Tennessee, Doctor of Philosophy in Geography
2016
Oklahoma State University, Master's of Science in Geography
Publications
2020
Journal of Heritage Tourism, Creating 'Confederate pioneers': a spatial narrative analysis of race, settler colonialism, and heritage tourism at the Museu da Imigraçao, Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, São Paulo
2018
Social & Cultural Geography, Was Tulsa's Brady Street really renamed? Racial (in)justice, memory-work, and neoliberalism's mandate of least disruption.
2017
Papers in Applied Geography, Applying critical race and memory studies to university place naming controversies: toward a responsible landscape policy.