research overview
- I am currently working on two book projects. The first, titled 'We are Each Other's Magnitude and Bond': A History of Climate Justice from Warren County to the Sunrise Movement, is the first comprehensive history of the climate justice movement in the United States. The second, titled Race Radicals: Civil Rights and Immigration Reform during the Cold War, 1946-1968, foregrounds the transnational dimensions of U.S. Cold War history by situating the easing of restrictive immigration and naturalization laws in the United States from the late-1940s to the mid-1960s as part of a larger global history of freedom struggles, decolonization and the expansion of U.S. power and influence across the decolonizing world during the Cold War. It does so by examining the travels of some the country’s most prominent African American and Asian American musicians, intellectuals, and politicians across the decolonizing world during the early years of the Cold War, with a particular focus on the 1955 Afro-Asian Conference in Bandung, Indonesia. My exploration places geo-political events like Bandung and the actors of my study in the larger contexts of global decolonization, anticommunism, and Cold War racial geopolitics and foregrounds the international dimensions of U.S. civil rights reform and Cold War history.