My interdisciplinary approaches to Blackness, migration and Indigeneity are grounded in a diasporic and transnational framework. My scholarship draws on the nuanced complexities and multiplicities of Blackness in the Americas, with a particular focus on Central America and the Circum-Caribbean as a diasporic site of transmigration.

My research addresses this evolving intersection of Black Studies, Caribbean, and Cultural Studies by exploring Belize as a site of conceiving nation and belonging in Central America and the Central American diaspora, both within and outside of the United States

Based on my dissertation, my current book project, Sub Umbra Floreo (Under the Shade I Flourish): Performing the Belizean Nation reevaluates Belize as a site for understanding intersections in race, performance, and nationhood in the Black diaspora of Central America. Building from my research on the racial politics, negotiations, and performance(s) of Belizean national identity, my current project extends existing scholarship on Blackness in Central America through examining how Black Belizeans come to see themselves as part of the nation within the in-between spaces they occupy in LatinAmerica and the Caribbean.

Research Interest

  • African Diaspora Theory

  • Black Indigineity

  • Cultural Studies

  • Digital Humanities

  • Blackness in Central America

  • Transnationalism

  • Race, Nation & Popular Culture in Latin America & the Caribbean