Media Studies

Specializes in money and other media technologies and teaches in the Global Commerce in Culture and Society track in the Global Studies Program.

Specializes in the intersections between Chinese and US media and technology industries

Specializes in transnational/transcultural fandoms and transnational media co-production and distribution, East Asian film and media, television, and videographic criticism

Specializes in the role of media in identity negotiation among Afro-Latina/os, media-based racialization of Afro-Latina/os, and the performativity and intersections of race and gender, has conducted fieldwork in the Dominican Republic and New York City as part of a continuing ethnographic study on Dominican identity

Specializes in Asian American Studies and Gender Studies, particularly issues related to immigration and history related to people from East and South Asia.

Specializes in the intersection of Anthropology of Technology, Science and Technology Studies (STS), Information Anthropology, ICT for Development (ICT4D), and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and is an ethnographer with fieldwork experience in Havana, Cuba, Guadalajara, Mexico, the favelas of Vitória, Brazil, and in the Appalachian region of eastern Kentucky