Research Interests
"I am studying pigs and policing in the context of settler colonialism, using pigs (the animals) as a lens to look at the regulation of public space, competing ideologies of private property, criminalization and racial formations, and the violence of colonialism. My range right now is broad — from the 15th through the 19th century, urban and rural, and spanning the anglophone and francophone Atlantic world. I am interested in pigs as commodities (which they sometimes were in these histories), but also as subjects with their own agency in relationship to humans and the land. As a result my work spans environmental history, animal studies, racial capitalism, and colonial legal history."