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Research Interests

My research interests primarily revolve around understanding how colonialism and coloniality "rupture" our collective capacity to communicate in the world (both the world of humans and the-more-than-human), and how this rupturing affects kinship and personhood. The crux of my book project is the development of an account of "hermeneutic illness".
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As an interdisciplinary scholar concerned with the entire geographical region of "the Americas" , I work with Indigenous Philosophy, Latin American Philosophy, Critical Black Studies, and Caribbean Philosophy.
All that said, below are my main philosophical "buckets".

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Social Epistemology
Anti-Colonial Philosophy
Identity and Personhood
Current Themes of Interest to Me

Aside from my limited buckets, my work moves between a lot of different conversations. Here are the main ones I am concerned with right now.

  • Affect Theory
    • The roles of guilt and grief in affirming the value of the oppressed
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  • Moral Psychology and Philosophy of Mind
    • Recognizing  culpability and blameworthiness while looking at marginalized people’s responses in instances of learned helplessness and trauma as a means of acknowledging their agency
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  • Narrative Theory and Poetics​​​
    • Understanding the unique role of poetics and narrative in capturing affective, embodied, dimensions of the testimony of the colonized ​
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