ABOUT ME
Agur!
As noted on the Home page, I'm Euskaldun (Basque, Iparralde region). My ancestral and ongoing land and waters are Lapurdi, in the Biarrtitz/Miarritz area. My paternal family is Northern German. I grew up on Wampanoag territories around Buzzards Bay, Cape Cod, MA, and have studied on Kanaka Maoli lands and waters around Honolulu, HI.
Currently at Dartmouth College, I center relational commitments – as complex as they can be - to human and nonhuman kin, and center BIPoC feminist theory and praxis in my teaching and research.
My areas of focus are noted below, in late summer 2020 I will defend my doctoral dissertation in in the areas of Indigenous Politics and Futures Studies from the Political Science Department at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, titled (Re)Coding Survivance:
Relation-Oriented Ontologies of Indigenous Digital Media.
EDUCATION
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Indigenous and Aboriginal Digital Media
Researching theoretical and material interventions
2019 - 2021
Dartmouth College
Eastman Fellow, Native American Studies
Global Indigenous and Aboriginal studies
Tracing and attenuating to where and how these are engaged in political and social contexts.
Oceanic Relations
How do we define and return to roots and routes within coastal communties?
"No Wave" Feminisms and Queer Praxis
Centering Black and Indigenous scholars engaging in feminist and queer solidarity building and support networks
2013 - 2020
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Masters and PhD in Political Science with a focus on Indigenous Politics and Futures Studies
2011 - 2013
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Masters in French Literature with a focus on Oceania Indigenous Literature