projects
manufacturing stealth: aerospace and its absence in Los Angeles
stealth is both the object of study and an analytic for examining how one keeps large production efforts hidden from view and the strange absent presence of the military-as-economy in the regional and national imgaination
the afterlives of labor: automation and its effects
this project examines the future of human labor in the age of AI and automation through the unfolding battles over automation at the San Pedro Bay Ports
open wounds: California’s postwar industrial revolution
this project explores the history and ecological legacy of aerospace and oil, chemical manufacturing and mining that undergirded California’s seemingly endless expansion in the postwar period
indian medicine
this project examines the relationship between expertise and immigration in a globaliizing world through the post 1965 story of South Asian doctors in the US
cantonment: nature and the city in India
military bases occupy large swatches of urban space in India. This project explores how security, cities, and nature are emerging in relation to each other in the twenty-first century