I specialize in the history, development, and cultural significance of cities, with particular attention to the intersecting formations of space, race, and memory in urban contexts. I received my Ph.D. in American Studies & Ethnicity from the University of Southern California in 2008; my dissertation, “Home Is Little Tokyo”: Race, Community, and Memory in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles, examines the spatial and memorial practices through which the state and racialized communities together, though with unequal access to power and resources, produced ethnoracially-inscribed spaces such as ghettos, barrios, and ethnic enclaves in the (post)industrial American city. In harmony with Portland State University’s mission to support critical research in sustainability, my next project will explore conjunctions between land use practices and technologies of memory that em-place and re-present historical moments of exclusion, oppression, or violence.
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