DIRECTORY LISTING

I am Associate Professor of Media Sociology. I teach in the Media and Communication Studies (MCS), and Film and Television Studies (FTS) majors. I have also taught in the Lehman Scholars Program (LSP), and Macaulay Honors College (MHC) at Lehman. My academic research to date is located at the nexus of digital media, migration, identity, and intimacy. I also write frequently on these topics for the popular media. I hold a M.S. in journalism from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Cambridge, where I am a Life Member of King’s College. I have been the recipient of multiple fellowships, from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the CUNY Research Foundation, the Canada Council for the Arts, and others. I am, since 2013, Visiting Professor in the Department of Communications at John Cabot University, in Rome, Italy. I have been DAAD Visiting Professor in the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome, Michaelmas Visiting Scholar in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge, Visiting Scholar at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), McCloy Fellow in Arts Journalism in Berlin from the American Council on Germany, Faculty Fellow at the Italian Diaspora Summer Studies Seminar (IDSSS) of the Calandra Institute at Queens College, and Faculty Fellow at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics (CPCP) at the CUNY Graduate Center. My book is The Windrush Poles: Memory, Migration and Genealogy (Bloomsbury 2027), and my journalism and commentary have appeared in BBC News, Columbia Journalism Review, The Conversation, HuffPost, The Independent, Salon, Vogue, and others.

Research Interests

Cosmopolitanism, Identity, Intimacy, Labor and Organization, Media Industry Studies, Digital Media, Black Europe, Black British and Windrush Studies

Recent and Selected Academic Publications

“We don't need another hero: Un-archiving August Agboola Browne (1895-1976)” in Disrupting Archives. Eds. Thục Linh Nguyễn Vũ and Katarzyna Nowak. Forthcoming in 2027.

“‘How do I put this gently?’: Articulating the link between racial selectivity in the sexual market and neighborhood selection in the residential market of a global city.” Communication, Culture and Critique 17(3): 221-224, 2024, doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcae033.

“‘I Would Like to be a Spoiled, Rich, White Girl’: Trans Genealogy, (Self-)Naming and the Entombed Italian American Subjectivity of Venus Xtravaganza” Pp. 145-168 in Spaghetti Sissies: Queering Italian American Media, eds. Julia Heim and Sole Anatrone, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10197-7_8   

“Playing in the Dark with Ali: Portraiture, Race, and Remembrance in Karol Radziszewski’s Painting of August Agboola Browne.” Central Europe 19(1): 65-87, 2021, doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14790963.2021.1921999

“Sex, Power, and Organizational Culture in the Glossy Magazine Industry.” Pp. 77-91 in The Handbook of Magazine Studies, eds. Miglena Sternadori and Tim Holmes, Hoboken: Wiley, 2020, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119168102.ch6

“Guido Culture and Italian American Youth: From Bensonhurst to Jersey Shore.” Review, Italian American Review 10(2): 204-208, Bloomington: University of Illinois Press, 2020, doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/italamerrevi.10.2.0204

“Hyper Sexual, Hyper Masculine? Gender, Race and Sexuality in the Identities of Contemporary Black Men.” Review, Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies (Journal of Gender Studies) 20(1): 92-95, Amsterdam University Press, 2017, doi: https://doi.org/10.5117/TVGN2017.1.RAHB

“Libidinal Cosmopolitanism: The Case of Digital Sexual Encounters in Post-Enlargement Europe” Pp. 291-312 in Postcolonial Transitions in Europe: Contexts, Practices and Politics, eds. Sandra Ponzanesi and Gianmaria Colpani, London and New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, doi: http://doi.org/10.5040/9798881812928.ch-015

“People of Color Mobilization in LGBT Movements in the Netherlands and the United States” co-authored with Jan Willem Duyendak, Pp. 135-48 in The Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism, eds. David Paternotte and Manon Tremblay, Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2015, doi: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315613147