BIOGRAPHY
I am a social & natural scientist who studies evolutionary genetics, theoretical population genetics, race/ism, Du Boisian historical sociology, science & technology studies (STS), philosophies of science, & philosophies of biology.
My work seeks to understand how social, political, & economic inequalities influence health & contribute to the perpetuation of health inequalities. By analyzing human genetic data, human osteological remains, medical/dental records, & historical demographic methods, I aim to better understand how the relationships that colonized/racialized peoples have to various forms of structural domination dictate who gets sick, when they get sick, where, why, & how. My research aims to contribute to the field by providing new ways of understanding how the social, political, & economic effects the biological & demonstrate how to see the body as material evidence of inequalities commonly understood as covert.
My research is interdisciplinary & incorporates sociology, biological anthropology, evolutionary genetics, microbiology, bio-ethics, theoretical population genetics, critical public health, & statistical methods to study the stratification of the distribution of morbidity & mortality.
I research the impact of inequality on human biology & health at multiple stages: knowledge production (STS, SKATS), collection of biological data, analysis, & pursuing anti-colonial solution-based interventions. I utilize community-based development efforts towards the mitigation & prevention of domination on colonized/racialized peoples in the US & abroad to improve equitable access to the basic material needs & social resources required to provide these communities with a good quality of life (QoL) & a good quality of death (QoD), thus eliminating racist health disparities.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Decolonized Anthropology
- Public Health
- Race and Racism
- Medical Anthropology
- African American Studies
- Africana Studies / Black consciousness
- Intersectionality and Social Inequality
- Black feminism
- Social Sciences
- Race and Science
- Physical Anthropology
- Economics
- Human Anatomy (Biological Anthropology)
- Paleopathology, Biological Anthropology, Dental Anthropology
- Science and Technology Studies
- Food sciences and nutrition
- Urban Sociology
- Health Disparities
- Philosophy of Science
- Quantitative genetics (Biology)
- Anthropological genetics
- Evolutionary Biology
- Evolutionary Genetics (Evolution)
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- Darwinian evolution
- Biological Anthropology
- Human Population Genetics
- Settler colonialism
- Isolation by distance
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AFFILIATIONS
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, Graduate Student