I am a human geographer whose research is driven by a commitment to understand the spatial and social implications of dynamic maritime geographies.
I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow working on an ERC project, Between Sea and City: Ethnographic explorations of infrastructure, work, and place around leading urban container ports (PORTS), in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo, Norway. The PORTS project is a multiyear and multi-sited project that focuses attention on four port cities - Rotterdam, Piraeus, Hamburg, and Singapore - as a way to ethnographically explore the intersection of maritime work, urban development, and environmental conditions related to container ports. In centering these dynamic variables, PORTS examines how twenty-first century challenges are being met, and in the process, conditioning the next generation port, port work, and nature of trade more broadly.
For this project, my fieldwork was located in Singapore. While in Singapore I focused on understanding the organizational landscape of energy transition, and how the port and maritime economy is being conceptualized and operationalized in broader efforts of maritime decarbonization, and the implications this has for novel and uneven patterns of regional geographies of trade and green energy production.
I hold a PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, with a specialization in Human Geography, an MA in Geography from Hunter College, and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. I completed my BFA at the New School for Social Research. My research has been supported by the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies, Knickerbocker Archival Research Award, the Institute of Human Geography Grant Program, and a Graduate Center Dissertation Year Fellowship. My writing has been featured in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space and Focus on Geography and, in 2023, in Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space as well as Anthropologica.
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I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow working on an ERC project, Between Sea and City: Ethnographic explorations of infrastructure, work, and place around leading urban container ports (PORTS), in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo, Norway. The PORTS project is a multiyear and multi-sited project that focuses attention on four port cities - Rotterdam, Piraeus, Hamburg, and Singapore - as a way to ethnographically explore the intersection of maritime work, urban development, and environmental conditions related to container ports. In centering these dynamic variables, PORTS examines how twenty-first century challenges are being met, and in the process, conditioning the next generation port, port work, and nature of trade more broadly.
For this project, my fieldwork was located in Singapore. While in Singapore I focused on understanding the organizational landscape of energy transition, and how the port and maritime economy is being conceptualized and operationalized in broader efforts of maritime decarbonization, and the implications this has for novel and uneven patterns of regional geographies of trade and green energy production.
I hold a PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, with a specialization in Human Geography, an MA in Geography from Hunter College, and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. I completed my BFA at the New School for Social Research. My research has been supported by the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies, Knickerbocker Archival Research Award, the Institute of Human Geography Grant Program, and a Graduate Center Dissertation Year Fellowship. My writing has been featured in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space and Focus on Geography and, in 2023, in Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space as well as Anthropologica.
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