The Chains We Forge: Complicity as a Tool of Oppression ↗
Talk · William & Mary Graduate Research Symposium
what I study —
The questions I keep chasing
My work lives where genocide & mass-atrocity prevention, international law, and lived human experience meet — how violence begins, and how prevention can get there first.
the questions —
Areas of interest
Six threads I keep pulling on.
Transitional justice & recovery
How societies pursue accountability and repair after mass violence — and why the sequence matters.
Civil society & grassroots peacebuilding
The role of ordinary communities in building peace from the ground up, before and after atrocity.
Socio-anthropological lenses
Reading atrocity through culture, memory and identity — because the numbers alone never explain it.
Memory & historical narrative
How we remember violence, who owns the story once it's told, and what remembering is for.
Complicity & moral responsibility
The uncomfortable middle — bystanders, enablers, and the slow slide from ordinary to unthinkable.
Technology & early warning
Using data and emerging tools to anticipate mass violence early enough to act.
Publications & talks
Selected writing and speaking. Arrows open a video or link.
Comparative Genocide Analysis
Interactive ArcGIS story map reading atrocity as a process
Legal Parameters of the Crime of Genocide
Research paper · Hood College — on The Gambia v. Myanmar (Rohingya)
Demographic Trends Through Cultural Anthropology ↗
Talk · Maryland Collegiate Honors Conference
Transitional Justice Around the World
Panel · Maryland Collegiate Honors Conference
Review: Making Hispanics (G. Cristina Mora)
On the construction of identity categories and their stakes