Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations
Visiting Lecturer of Media Studies at Duke Kunshan University
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2026 - Present
DKU Faculty
Visiting Lecturer of Interdisciplinary Studies at DKU Unit at Duke University
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2026 - Present
Interdisciplinary Studies at DKU Unit,
DKU Faculty
Recent Scholarly Works
Revising the narrative: mobilizing storytelling to transform diaspora identities in Chicago
Journal article Museums and Social Issues · January 1, 2026 We argue that in the last decade diaspora museums have emerged as a significant institutional formation. Mobilized by communities, within these institutions storytelling is deployed to complicate discussions of identity and migration. These museums are par ... Full text CiteLaudato Si’, Climate Justice, and Liberation Ecology: Moving on from the Anthropocene
Book section · January 1, 2026 This chapter explores the convergence of environmental theology and climate justice in Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’. Amidst the multifaceted challenges posed by climate change, I delve into the critique of the ‘Anthropocene’ concept while highlight ... Full text CiteFaith, Trauma, Resistance, and Resilience in the Revolutionary Songs of Civil War El Salvador
Journal article Journal of the American Musicological Society · April 1, 2025 During El Salvador’s civil war (1980-92), campesinas and campesinos (subsistence farmers) articulated their experience of the conflict in a folk music genre known as revolutionary song. Here we examine the revolutionary songs of one singer-songwriter, Norb ... Full text CiteEducation
Western University (Canada) ·
2024
Ph.D.