I received my Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from Claremont Graduate University in summer of 2007. A 2006 Ford Dissertation Diversity Fellow, I currently teach at California State University, Fresno, in the Africana Studies Program (formerly Africana and American Indian Studies). Previously, I taught at the Claremont Colleges (most notably Pitzer and Pomona Colleges) in the Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies (now the Intercollegiate Department of Africana Studies) and Pitzer College's International and Intercultural Studies Department. I have also taught classes at California State University, Dominguez Hills, in the Africana Studies and Social & Behavioral Sciences Departments. My research focuses on Africana resistance cultures and media within Africana communities. My work also emphasizes how political ideology, icon-construction, identity-formation, religion/spirituality, and the imagination have been used as tools for social agency, cultural development, and political mobilization.

Recent Publication!

Look for my essay "The Prodigal God and the Legacy of Socially Responsible Hip-Hop" in this book due out in April 2011!