Academic Publications

"Michelle Obama: Redefining the (White) House-wife." Thirdspace: a Journal of Feminist Theory & Culture. 2011. http://www.thirdspace.ca/journal/article/view/white/434.

(forthcoming). "Considering Sound: Language, Meaning and the Construction of Noise," in Paul Hegarty, Benjamin Halligan and Michael Goddard (Eds.) Noise: Affect, Politics and Aesthetics.

(Revise and Resubmit). BangClash: Belongingness and the Harlem drummers. Urban Geography.

(Revise and resubmit). Fade from Black: Black becoming Africana. Souls.

Review: Checker, Melissa. Polluted Promises (2005), in Transforming Anthropology.

Essay contributed to National Association of Black Journalists Journal, Spring 2008.

Popular Publications

Review of film “For Colored Girls,” Splice Today, http://www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictures/for-colored-girls-fails-to-inspire. November 18, 2010.

“What Men Should Learn from Michelle,” Chronicle of Higher Education Brainstorm Blog.http://chronicle.com/blogPost/what-men-should-learn-from-michelle/6999. July 2, 2009.

“The Producer Snapshot: Robert Moses,” Your America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

“Democracy in the Deep South,” contributed to “NOW on PBS." August 18, 2006.

Contributed to National Association of Black Journalists Blog on Senegal/UN trip 2007 at http://nabjinsenegal.blogspot.com .

Conference Presentations

“Tea’d Off: Media and the Rise of the 21st Century Tea Party” (2011), International Association for Media and Communication Research, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey.

"Redeeming Black Women on the Silver Screen" (2011), Society for Cinema and Media Studies, New Orleans, LA.

"Oceanic Negroes: Communicating Blackness Down, Out, and Under” (2011), International Communication Association Conference, Boston, MA.

“BangClash: Belongingness and the Harlem Drummers” (2011), Race and Space Symposium, Association of American Geographers, Seattle, WA.

“Michelle Obama: Redefining the (White) House – Wife” (2010), International Communication Association Conference, Singapore.

Guest speaker - Pants on the Ground Film Festival (2010)
Discussed and answered questions with officials and parents of the South Orange/Maplewood School District about a segment that I produced on Robert Moses, urban education, and the Algebra Project on May 12, 2010 .

With Katz, Elihu. “Electronic Empowerment? On Interacting with Officials and Professionals in the Age of New Media.” (2009) Presented by Elihu Katz at Zeppelin University as part of lecture series on The Media in Knowledge Societies at Friedrichshafen, Germany, March 2, 2009

“An Africana Studies Movement? Black becoming Africana.” (2009) Presented at the annual National Council for Black Studies conference at Atlanta, GA, March 19 - 21.

“A Marriage of Convenience: Black becoming Africana.” (2008) Presented at the annual AYA African American Studies Conference at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, April 11-12.