I’m an experimental geographer with a background in architecture, art, and design. I focus on the emerging field of explosivity studies (how, when, and where things do, or do not, blow up). I study the spatial politics of landscapes shaped by explosions, or the latent potential thereof, and the racial politics of explosions. In short, my work has looked at the movement, logistics, and securitization of explosive substances.

 

My new research lines look into topics such as: the geography of dynamite logistics, the movement of debris from the so-called Spanish American War, and the military occupation of Puerto Rico.

 

I teach broadly in the fields of political ecologies, naturecultures, critical military studies, landscape studies, and chemicalized geographies.

 

I’m a co-founder of demilit with Bryan Finoki and Nick Sowers, a landscape arts collective with works exhibited and published in numerous venues. Some of my favorites are: a piece about “suspicious packages” for the Harvard Design Magazine; a call to roving criticism for Archis’ Volume; and last but not least, a design fiction about green militarized automation for a defunct Emirati art publication, The State.