People’s blockades against the ‘Automated Air War’
2024︎︎︎present
RESEARCH
2024︎︎︎present
RESEARCH
Ongoing research on a national direct action campaign from the summer and fall of 1972.
My current research focuses on the 1972 People’s Blockade of Arms to Indochina, a semi-centralized campaign of human blockades at domestic US naval ports, munitions plants, and military rail lines protesting the United States’ air wars in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.
If you were involved in a blockade and are interested in telling me about your experiences, or if you were active military on a ship, train, or other site that was blockaded by civilians around 1971-2, please email me here.
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Unless otherwise noted, all above images are sourced from the 1972 document “Why the People’s Blockade?” published by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC).
My current research focuses on the 1972 People’s Blockade of Arms to Indochina, a semi-centralized campaign of human blockades at domestic US naval ports, munitions plants, and military rail lines protesting the United States’ air wars in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.
If you were involved in a blockade and are interested in telling me about your experiences, or if you were active military on a ship, train, or other site that was blockaded by civilians around 1971-2, please email me here.
Unless otherwise noted, all above images are sourced from the 1972 document “Why the People’s Blockade?” published by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC).
“Citizen Scientist 1 Returns”
2023︎︎︎2026
RESEARCH
2023︎︎︎2026
RESEARCH
An essay on waste, reclamation, and settler aesthetics in Newtown Odyssey.
Following my review of Newtown Odyssey: An open-air opera for, about, and on a creek for the New York Review of Architecture, I conducted interviews with the opera’s composer and librettist. Those interviews informed my article “Citizen Scientist 1 Returns,” which looks at one of the opera’s characters, an unnamed citizen scientist studying the remediation of the most polluted waterway in North America, as a paranoid figure of settler colonization. Forthcoming Spring 2027 in LA+: Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture.
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Following my review of Newtown Odyssey: An open-air opera for, about, and on a creek for the New York Review of Architecture, I conducted interviews with the opera’s composer and librettist. Those interviews informed my article “Citizen Scientist 1 Returns,” which looks at one of the opera’s characters, an unnamed citizen scientist studying the remediation of the most polluted waterway in North America, as a paranoid figure of settler colonization. Forthcoming Spring 2027 in LA+: Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture.
“Anti-Assimilationist Landscape: Becoming Illegible as Queer Resistance to State Power”
2017︎︎︎2023
RESEARCH
2017︎︎︎2023
RESEARCH
An essay on the queer spatial practices of Collier Schorr and David Benjamin Sherry.
Through a study of two series of landscape photographs by twenty-first century American artists, I proposes a theory of “anti-assimilationist landscape”: a politicized rejection of the conventions of landscape imagery and the repressive systems of land ownership, gender, and nation-building it sustains. Collier Schorr and David Benjamin Sherry make landscape images in sites with histories of gendered settler-colonial and white supremacist violence. The essay argues that their works function as both interpretation of those sites and a queer reclamation of them, enacting a political ecology of difference that invites a politics beyond the liberal-democratic notion of citizenship and the fascist notion of ‘blood and soil.’ Arguing for its applicability to landscape architecture theory and practice, I contrast this anti-assimilationist mode to the turn-of-the-millennium concept of ‘eco-revelation,’ proposing instead a queer aesthetics of obscuring and the potential of ‘becoming illegible’ as an environmentalist practice.
You can read the article in Journal of Landscape Architecture: “Anti-Assimilationist Landscape: Becoming Illegible as Queer Resistance to State Power.”
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All Collier Schorr images were reproduced courtesy of 303 Gallery, New York.
All David Benjamin Sherry images were reproduced courtesy of Morán Morán.
Through a study of two series of landscape photographs by twenty-first century American artists, I proposes a theory of “anti-assimilationist landscape”: a politicized rejection of the conventions of landscape imagery and the repressive systems of land ownership, gender, and nation-building it sustains. Collier Schorr and David Benjamin Sherry make landscape images in sites with histories of gendered settler-colonial and white supremacist violence. The essay argues that their works function as both interpretation of those sites and a queer reclamation of them, enacting a political ecology of difference that invites a politics beyond the liberal-democratic notion of citizenship and the fascist notion of ‘blood and soil.’ Arguing for its applicability to landscape architecture theory and practice, I contrast this anti-assimilationist mode to the turn-of-the-millennium concept of ‘eco-revelation,’ proposing instead a queer aesthetics of obscuring and the potential of ‘becoming illegible’ as an environmentalist practice.
You can read the article in Journal of Landscape Architecture: “Anti-Assimilationist Landscape: Becoming Illegible as Queer Resistance to State Power.”
All Collier Schorr images were reproduced courtesy of 303 Gallery, New York.
All David Benjamin Sherry images were reproduced courtesy of Morán Morán.
Rutgers GEO 450, “Maps, Power, and the Digital World”
2025
TEACHING
In Fall 2025, I designed and taught an advanced undergraduate seminar on contemporary theories of mapping, cartography, and political power. You can access the full syllabus here.
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MICA AH-379 Contemporary Architecture Criticism and Theory
2022
TEACHING
In Spring 2022, I designed and taught an advanced undergraduate seminar on contemporary architectural theory. 379-AH Contemporary Architecture Criticism & Theory at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). You can access the full syllabus here.
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