North American Studies

Indigenous Land Sovereignty and Treaty Rights

Examines legal frameworks, historical negotiations, and contemporary disputes over Native American and First Nations territorial claims and self-determination.

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Transnational Migration Networks in North America

Analyzes cross-border migration patterns, diaspora communities, and the social networks sustaining movement between Mexico, Central America, and the US.

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Environmental Justice and Industrial Colonialism

Investigates how industrial development, extraction, and pollution disproportionately affect Indigenous communities and communities of color across North America.

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Digital Humanities and Archival Innovation

Develops computational methods for digitizing, analyzing, and democratizing access to North American historical documents and cultural archives.

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Settler Colonial Narratives and Counter-Historiography

Deconstructs dominant historical narratives and centers Indigenous, Black, and immigrant perspectives in rewriting North American foundational histories.

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Border Biopolitics and Migration Control Technologies

Examines surveillance systems, biometric identification, and governance mechanisms used to regulate bodies and mobility at US-Mexico and US-Canada borders.

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Black Radical Political Thought and Activism

Studies revolutionary ideologies, grassroots movements, and intellectual traditions of African American and Black Canadian political organizations.

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Urban Food Systems and Food Sovereignty

Analyzes alternative food networks, Indigenous food practices, and community-based responses to food insecurity in North American cities.

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Climate Change and Seasonal Labor Migration

Investigates how climate variability and environmental degradation drive agricultural labor migration patterns across North American borders.

Gender and the Politics of Care Work

Examines racialized and gendered dimensions of domestic labor, childcare, and eldercare industries across North American economies.

Pan-American Literary Modernism and Exchange

Traces transnational literary movements, translation networks, and cultural exchanges among North and Latin American modernist writers.

Extractive Industries and Ecological Debt

Analyzes mining, forestry, and fossil fuel extraction in North America and their cumulative environmental and social liabilities.

Queer Diaspora and Transnational Belonging

Explores how LGBTQ+ communities navigate migration, asylum, and identity formation across North American borders and spaces.

Decolonizing Higher Education in North America

Examines curriculum reform, Indigenous knowledge systems, and institutional transformation in North American universities and colleges.

Religious Fundamentalism and Political Mobilization

Studies how evangelical, Islamic, and other fundamentalist movements shape political agendas and social movements in the United States and Canada.

Urban Renewal and Gentrification in Post-Industrial Cities

Investigates how neoliberal urban development policies displace working-class and racialized communities in declining North American metropolitan areas.

Disability Justice and Accessibility Movements

Analyzes disability justice frameworks, accessibility activism, and the politics of care and interdependence in North American contexts.

Cultural Memory and Commemoration Practices

Examines monuments, museums, memorials, and public rituals through which North American societies construct and contest collective memory.

Contemporary Indigenous Cinema and Visual Sovereignty

Studies Indigenous filmmaking, media production, and visual storytelling as practices of cultural sovereignty and self-representation.

Carceral Expansion and Abolition Movements

Investigates the historical development of prisons, surveillance, and police violence alongside emerging abolitionist political organizing.

Language Revitalization and Linguistic Sovereignty

Documents efforts to preserve, teach, and revitalize Indigenous and endangered languages across North America using community-based approaches.

Neoliberal Governance and Privatization Regimes

Analyzes how market-based policies reshape public services, social welfare, and state capacity in contemporary North America.

Asian American Literature and Representation Politics

Examines literary works, media representation, and cultural production by Asian Americans negotiating citizenship and belonging.

Water Rights and Indigenous Environmental Stewardship

Studies Indigenous water management practices, treaty protections, and contemporary struggles over aquifer access and river governance.

Unions, Labor Organizing, and Working-Class Resistance

Traces histories of labor militancy, union decline, and grassroots workplace organizing across North American industrial and service sectors.

Settler Colonial Spatial Imaginaries and Cartography

Deconstructs how maps, geographic knowledge, and spatial categories have legitimized settler colonialism and Indigenous dispossession.

Affective Economies and Emotional Capitalism

Examines how emotions are commodified, managed, and exploited within North American consumer culture and digital economies.

Reparations Movements and Redress Politics

Analyzes historical and contemporary demands for reparations by African Americans, Indigenous peoples, and other groups for historical injustices.

Community Archives and Participatory History-Making

Develops methodologies for collaborative archival work where communities control documentation of their own histories and cultural knowledge.

Viral Citizenship and Social Media Activism

Investigates how digital platforms enable and constrain political organizing, protest documentation, and alternative information circulation in North America.

Creole Identity and Mixed-Race Politics

Explores multiethnic and mixed-race communities, their cultural production, and negotiation of identity within rigid racial taxonomies.

Public Health Inequality and Medical Racism

Examines structural racism in healthcare systems, disease surveillance, and medical experimentation targeting Indigenous and Black communities.

Agricultural Labor and Food Production Systems

Analyzes farmworker exploitation, migrant labor conditions, and industrial agriculture''s environmental and social costs across North America.

Deportation Regimes and Immigrant Precarity

Studies immigration enforcement, detention systems, and how legal status shapes vulnerability and access to resources and protection.

Cultural Appropriation and Intellectual Property Rights

Examines legal frameworks, ethical debates, and power dynamics surrounding Indigenous cultural knowledge, sacred objects, and artistic expression.

Comparative Indigenous Governance Systems

Analyzes diverse Indigenous political institutions, decision-making processes, and models of sovereignty across North American nations.

Climate Grief and Ecological Anxiety in Culture

Investigates how climate crisis manifests in North American literature, art, psychology, and collective emotional landscapes.

Rural-Urban Inequality and Regional Disparities

Examines economic, social, and political inequalities between urban centers and rural hinterlands in North American geography.

Afrofuturism and Black Speculative Imagination

Studies Black science fiction, speculative fiction, and visionary art imagining alternative Black futures beyond white domination.

Pandemic Governance and Biopolitical Control

Analyzes state responses to COVID-19 pandemic, differential health impacts, and how crises enable expansion of surveillance and control.

Latin American Exile Literature and Transnational Aesthetics

Examines literary works by exiled Latin American writers in North America and their representations of displacement and political consciousness.

Police Abolition Theory and Transformative Justice

Develops philosophical and practical frameworks for eliminating policing and reimagining community safety beyond punitive justice systems.

Indigenous Feminism and Intersectional Decolonization

Analyzes Indigenous women''s political thought, gender sovereignty, and feminist approaches to decolonization across North America.

Philanthropic Capitalism and Nonprofit Colonialism

Critiques how philanthropic institutions and nonprofit sectors reproduce inequality while claiming to address social problems.

Sanctuary Movements and Resistance to Immigration Enforcement

Documents grassroots sanctuary campaigns, faith-based resistance, and community protection strategies against immigration raids and deportations.

Indigenous Intellectual Traditions and Knowledge Systems

Recovers and legitimizes Indigenous philosophies, epistemologies, and scientific knowledge often erased from Western academic canons.

Housing Justice and the Right to the City

Examines homelessness, housing precarity, rent strikes, and movements for community land trusts and affordable housing in North America.

Crypto-Colonialism and Digital Extraction

Analyzes how digital technologies, cryptocurrencies, and data extraction reproduce colonial exploitation patterns in contemporary North America.

Chicana/o Borderlands Culture and Mestiza Consciousness

Explores Chicana/o literary and cultural production, border theory, and articulations of hybrid identity in the US-Mexico borderlands.

Disaster Capitalism and Crisis Profiteering

Investigates how corporations exploit natural disasters, climate emergencies, and public crises to advance privatization and accumulation.

Surveillance Capitalism and Privacy Politics

Examines how corporate data collection and algorithmic surveillance reshape citizenship, consent, and resistance in North American contexts.

Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Informational Justice

Investigates Indigenous communities'' control over data collection, representation, and knowledge systems in opposition to extractive research paradigms.

Incarceration and Intergenerational Trauma

Analyzes how mass incarceration produces lasting psychological and social injury across family generations in racialized communities.

Competing Nationalisms and Continental Identities

Explores how distinct national ideologies and pan-North American movements contest visions of belonging and political sovereignty.

Queer Labor and Affective Economics

Examines how LGBTQ+ workers navigate precarious employment, emotional labor, and economic survival within capitalist systems.

Religious Nationalism and White Christian Supremacy

Analyzes the intersection of religious ideology, racial nationalism, and state power in contemporary North American political movements.

Feminist Political Ecology and Resource Struggles

Investigates how gendered perspectives illuminate conflicts over natural resources, land access, and environmental governance.

Disability and Criminal Justice System

Examines overrepresentation of disabled individuals in carceral systems and alternate models of accountability and care.

Seasonal Agricultural Work and Labor Rights

Studies precarious conditions, exploitation patterns, and organizing strategies among temporary farm workers across North America.

Fossil Fuel Infrastructure and Community Resistance

Analyzes pipelines, refineries, and extraction sites as contested landscapes and sites of environmental justice organizing.

Reproductive Justice and Population Control

Examines coercive reproductive policies targeting Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and disabled communities as forms of biopower.

Immigrant Worker Organizing and Informal Economies

Investigates labor organizing, mutual aid, and economic survival strategies within undocumented and informal work sectors.

Residential Schools and Intergenerational Healing

Analyzes historical trauma from assimilationist education systems and contemporary Indigenous healing and decolonial practices.

Artistic Resistance and Cultural Counter-Narratives

Studies how visual art, music, theater, and performance challenge dominant power structures and dominant historical narratives.

Prison Abolition and Alternative Justice Models

Explores theoretical frameworks and practical implementations of non-carceral approaches to harm, accountability, and community safety.

Fossil Fuel Divestment Movements

Examines institutional divestment campaigns as climate action and the political economy of green finance and capital redirection.

Narratives of American Exceptionalism and Empire

Deconstructs ideological foundations of U.S. imperial projects and their legitimizing narratives across cultural and political spheres.

Trans Rights and Medical Access Justice

Investigates barriers to gender-affirming care, healthcare discrimination, and advocacy for trans healthcare autonomy and equity.

Academic Precarity and Contingent Labor

Analyzes exploitative working conditions for adjuncts, graduate students, and contingent faculty within higher education systems.

Environmental Racism and Toxic Geographies

Documents how pollution, contamination, and environmental hazards are disproportionately concentrated in communities of color.

Oral History and Subaltern Memory

Employs oral histories of marginalized populations to recover counter-narratives and challenge archival silences.

Homelessness and Housing Precarity

Examines causes, experiences, and structural interventions related to housing insecurity and houselessness across urban regions.

Sexual Violence and Institutional Accountability

Investigates sexual harassment and assault within institutions and grassroots alternatives to institutional justice systems.

Indigenous Sovereignty and Nation-Building

Studies contemporary Indigenous nation-states, governance structures, and projects of self-determination and self-recognition.

Anti-Black Policing and Resistance

Analyzes police violence against Black communities and emerging movements for accountability and systemic transformation.

Environmental Migration and Climate Displacement

Examines forced displacement caused by environmental degradation, natural disasters, and climate change in North American contexts.

Immigrant Women and Care Labor Chains

Investigates transnational networks of domestic work, childcare, and eldercare as gendered and racialized labor hierarchies.

Comics and Graphic Narratives as Testimony

Analyzes graphic novels and comics as vehicles for documenting marginalized experiences, trauma, and resistance histories.

Food Apartheid and Nutritional Justice

Studies unequal access to healthy food, corporate food systems, and community-led alternatives in low-income neighborhoods.

Indigenous Futurisms and Speculative Sovereignty

Explores Indigenous science fiction, futurism, and speculative imagination as decolonial projects and sovereignty practices.

Pandemic Inequality and Health Disparities

Analyzes how COVID-19 and other pandemics exposed and exacerbated existing health inequities across racial and class lines.

Labor Trafficking and Forced Labor Networks

Investigates exploitation within human trafficking industries and organizing strategies among survivors and vulnerable workers.

Indigenous Hip-Hop and Decolonial Performance

Examines Indigenous hip-hop artists'' use of music and performance as decolonial expression and political resistance.

School-to-Prison Pipeline and Educational Criminalization

Analyzes how surveillance, discipline, and criminalization in schools funnel youth, especially students of color, toward incarceration.

Debt and Economic Coercion

Examines student debt, medical debt, and predatory lending as mechanisms of economic control and systemic inequality.

Indigenous Activist Archives and Documentation

Studies how Indigenous communities create and maintain archives of activism, struggle, and cultural preservation outside dominant institutions.

Urban Indigenous Communities and Settler Cities

Investigates Indigenous experiences of urbanization, community formation, and sovereignty within settler colonial city spaces.

Anti-Capitalist Movements and Protest Culture

Analyzes contemporary anti-capitalist organizing, direct action, and cultural production challenging neoliberal economics.

Immigrant Rights and Sanctuary Organizing

Examines sanctuary cities, mutual aid networks, and immigrant-led organizing against deportation and criminalization.

Environmental Health Justice and Toxicology

Studies health impacts of environmental contamination and community-based research on exposure, disease, and resilience.

Indigenous Science and Knowledge Production

Examines Indigenous scientific knowledge systems, epistemologies, and their integration with Western science frameworks.

Automation and Labor Displacement

Investigates how technological automation reshapes labor markets, unemployment, and worker organizing across sectors.

LGBTQ+ Elders and Intergenerational Knowledge

Studies how LGBTQ+ older adults preserve community history, culture, and survival wisdom across generations.

Corporate Lobbying and Democratic Capture

Analyzes how corporate interests influence policy-making and undermine democratic governance in North American politics.

Indigenous Language Documentation and Revitalization

Explores contemporary methods and movements for documenting, teaching, and revitalizing endangered Indigenous languages.

Land Back and Reparations Implementation

Examines practical land return initiatives, reparations frameworks, and restitution movements for Indigenous and Black communities.

Feminist Geography and Spatial Justice

Investigates how gendered bodies and identities shape and are shaped by urban, rural, and digital spaces.

Mutual Aid Networks and Community Care

Studies grassroots networks of collective support, resource-sharing, and care outside state and market structures.

Sex Work and Criminalization Politics

Analyzes legal frameworks criminalizing sex work, sex worker rights movements, and decriminalization advocacy.

Youth Organizing and Generational Politics

Examines youth-led social movements, activism, and how generational perspectives reshape political demands and strategies.

Surveillance Capitalism and Data Colonialism

Examines how digital surveillance technologies reproduce colonial extraction patterns through the commodification of Indigenous and racialized populations'' data.

Indigenous Tech Sovereignty and Digital Futures

Investigates Indigenous-led technology development, data governance frameworks, and digital infrastructure as tools for self-determination and cultural continuity.

Reproductive Justice and Bodily Autonomy Politics

Analyzes intersectional approaches to reproductive rights, forced sterilization histories, and contemporary struggles for bodily sovereignty across North American communities.

Petrocultures and Fossil Fuel Aesthetics

Explores how North American literature, film, and visual culture represent, critique, and naturalize dependence on extractive petroleum economies.

Mutual Aid Networks and Anarchist Praxis

Documents contemporary horizontal organizing, decentralized aid distribution, and anarchist political experiments in urban and rural North American communities.

Intergenerational Trauma and Narrative Healing

Examines how Indigenous and marginalized communities use storytelling, oral history, and cultural practices to process and transmute historical violence.

Border Wall Aesthetics and Symbolic Violence

Analyzes the material, visual, and cultural dimensions of border barriers as expressions of settler colonial power and resistance artworks.

Transmasculinity and Gender Self-Determination

Investigates transmasculine identities, community formation, and political mobilization within intersectional North American gender justice movements.

Post-Industrial Ruins and Urban Archaeology

Studies abandoned factories, infrastructure, and landscapes as sites of historical memory, ecological transformation, and working-class resilience.

Religious Pluralism and Secular Nationalism

Examines tensions between religious diversity, secular governance, and nationalist projects in North American political and cultural formations.

Migrant Justice and Sanctuary Labor Organizing

Explores undocumented worker organizing, labor rights activism, and sanctuary workplace movements in North American industries.

Artistic Placemaking and Community Development

Analyzes how grassroots artists and cultural practitioners reshape urban spaces, resist displacement, and build community power through creative practice.

Critical Regionalism and Geographic Imagination

Investigates how regions are constructed, contested, and mobilized as political and cultural categories in North American literature and scholarship.

Incarcerated Intellectuals and Prison Writing

Examines theoretical contributions, literary productions, and political thought generated by incarcerated and formerly incarcerated North American writers.

Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities

Applies humanistic approaches to understanding North American environmental crises, ecological thought, and human-nature relationships through cultural analysis.

Childhood and Racialization in Education Systems

Examines how schools produce racial hierarchies, police Black and Brown children, and resist through liberatory and decolonial pedagogy.

Homelessness and the Politics of Visibility

Investigates representations of houselessness in media, policy responses, and homeless-led resistance movements in North American cities.

Queer Kinship and Non-Heteronormative Family

Analyzes queer and non-normative family structures, chosen families, and kinship practices as forms of political resistance and care.

Atlantic World Trade and Colonial Economics

Examines early modern commerce, slavery, extraction, and economic systems linking North America to Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean.

Disability and the Social Model of Justice

Applies disability justice frameworks to understand systemic oppression, interdependence, and liberation politics in North American contexts.

Oral History and Counter-Narrative Authority

Investigates oral history methodologies, indigenous knowledge systems, and community-based research as challenges to archival authority.

Speculative Fiction and Dystopian Futures

Analyzes science fiction, speculative literature, and imaginative futurism by North American authors as political thought and social critique.

Urbanization and Indigenous Displacement Histories

Examines Indian Relocation policies, ongoing Native American urban communities, and Indigenous presence in North American cities.

Art Activism and Cultural Insurgency

Studies collaborative art practices, radical aesthetics, and cultural organizing as strategies for political transformation and community liberation.

Colonial Masculinity and Male Dominance Systems

Analyzes how settler colonial projects depend on particular constructions of masculine power and how Indigenous and queer masculinities resist.

Immigrant Community Cultural Production

Examines literature, film, music, and visual arts created by immigrant and diaspora communities as expressions of identity and political resistance.

Environmental Racism and Toxic Geographies

Investigates unequal exposure to pollution, toxins, and environmental hazards experienced by communities of color and low-income populations.

Antiblackness and Settler Colonial Structures

Examines intersections between anti-Black racism and settler colonialism as interconnected systems of North American oppression.

Alternative Media and Independent Publishing

Studies zines, independent presses, community radio, and digital platforms as tools for marginalized voices and counterculture communication.

Cultural Hybridity and Mestiza Theorizing

Analyzes border crossing, cultural mixing, and mestiza consciousness as theoretical frameworks for understanding North American identity formation.

Student Activism and Campus Movements

Examines student organizing, campus protests, divestment campaigns, and educational activism across North American universities and colleges.

Prison Abolition Theory and Prefigurative Politics

Investigates abolitionist organizing, alternatives to incarceration, and visionary frameworks for transformative justice in North America.

Transnational Feminist Solidarity and Coalition

Explores feminist organizing across borders, solidarity networks, and intersectional feminist praxis in North American and global contexts.

Memory and Memorialization of Violence

Examines contested historical memory, monuments, and memorialization practices surrounding genocide, slavery, and state violence in North America.

Music Movements and Sonic Resistance

Analyzes hip-hop, punk, Indigenous music, blues, and other genres as expressions of resistance, political consciousness, and cultural identity.

Climate Migration and Environmental Refugees

Studies forced displacement due to environmental degradation, climate-induced migration patterns, and climate justice responses in North America.

Labor History and Working-Class Memory

Investigates labor movements, strike histories, working-class culture, and grassroots organizing traditions in North American labor struggles.

Settler Colonial Temporality and Time

Examines how settler colonialism structures time, progress narratives, and temporal hierarchies, and Indigenous temporal resistance.

Pandemic and Social Inequality

Analyzes COVID-19 and pandemic responses as revelations of structural inequality, disability justice, and racial health disparities.

Indigenous Futurism and Science Fiction

Analyzes Indigenous speculative fiction, futuristic imaginaries, and science fiction as decolonial praxis and visionary thinking.

Food Colonialism and Agricultural Sovereignty

Examines agricultural imperialism, food system colonialism, and Indigenous food sovereignty movements across North America.

Critical Geography and Scale Politics

Investigates how geographic scales—local, regional, national, global—are constructed and contested in North American political struggles.

Linguistic Justice and Language Rights

Studies language policy, linguistic discrimination, bilingualism, and language as a site of political struggle and cultural assertion.

Sexuality and Colonial Power Relations

Analyzes how sexuality is regulated through settler colonial law, immigration policy, and heteronormative structures of power.

Decolonial Aesthetics and Visual Sovereignty

Examines decolonial visual practices, Indigenous aesthetics, and creative resistance to colonial representation in North American art.

Community Health and Healing Justice

Investigates community-based health initiatives, traditional healing practices, and alternatives to medical colonialism and health racism.

Policing and State Violence Geographies

Maps policing technologies, surveillance infrastructure, and geographies of state violence targeting Indigenous peoples and communities of color.

Economic Justice and Cooperative Economics

Studies worker cooperatives, community land trusts, solidarity economics, and alternatives to capitalist accumulation in North America.

Digital Divide and Technology Access

Examines unequal access to technology, broadband, and digital literacy as reproducing existing inequalities in North American communities.

Surveillance Capitalism and Biometric Governance

Examines the intersection of corporate data collection and state biometric technologies in reshaping citizenship and control across North America.

Reproductive Justice and Bodily Autonomy Politics

Investigates the interconnections between reproductive rights, bodily sovereignty, and intersectional justice movements in contemporary North American contexts.

Algorithmic Discrimination in Criminal Justice Systems

Analyzes how machine learning and predictive algorithms perpetuate racial bias within law enforcement and sentencing practices across North America.

Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Information Governance

Explores Indigenous communities'' rights to collect, own, and control data about their peoples and territories in the digital age.

Fossil Fuel Infrastructure and Community Resistance

Documents grassroots mobilizations against pipelines, refineries, and extraction sites that disproportionately impact marginalized North American communities.

Transnational Korean American Cultural Production

Analyzes the circulation of Korean American artistic, literary, and digital media across Pacific and North American networks.

Homelessness and Urban Enclosure Politics

Examines how cities regulate and criminalize homelessness through hostile architecture, sweeps, and exclusionary spatial policies.

Transsexual Histories and Archival Practice

Documents and preserves transsexual and trans histories in North America through community-based and institutional archival methodologies.

Student Debt and Educational Debt Servitude

Analyzes how educational financing structures create intergenerational debt burdens that shape life trajectories and economic inequality.

Sex Worker Rights and Decriminalization Movements

Examines sex worker-led organizing for decriminalization, labor rights, and safety across North American jurisdictions.

Settler Colonialism and Real Estate Markets

Investigates how property speculation and real estate development perpetuate Indigenous dispossession in contemporary North America.

Anti-Blackness in Immigration Policy and Practice

Analyzes how immigration enforcement regimes disproportionately target and marginalize Black migrants and citizens across North America.

Comparative Pan-Indigenous Political Economies

Examines collaborative economic and political strategies among Indigenous nations across the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

Viral Disinformation and Democratic Fragmentation

Studies how algorithmic amplification of misinformation reshapes political discourse and institutional trust in North American democracies.

Disability and Environmental Justice Intersections

Explores how disability justice frameworks illuminate environmental racism and toxicity in marginalized North American communities.

Haitian American Diaspora and Political Engagement

Analyzes the political consciousness, cultural production, and transnational connections of Haitian American communities.

Platform Labor and Gig Economy Precarity

Examines how digital platforms reshape labor relations, worker classification, and employment precarity in North American economies.

Indigenous Futurisms and Speculative Sovereignty

Analyzes Indigenous artists'' and writers'' speculative imaginings of decolonial futures and alternative temporalities.

Intersectional Disability Theory and Abolition

Connects disability justice principles to carceral abolition and reimagining safety and community care in North America.

Right-Wing Populism and Authoritarian Movements

Investigates the rise of far-right political mobilizations and their appeals to white resentment across North America.

Urban Indigenous Communities and City Spaces

Examines the lifeworlds, organizing, and cultural practices of Indigenous peoples living in North American metropolitan areas.

Temporal Politics of Environmental Crisis

Analyzes how different temporal scales—indigenous time, geological time, capital time—structure environmental politics and climate action.

Comparative Immigration Enforcement Regimes

Examines varied immigration enforcement strategies, detention practices, and legal structures across US, Canadian, and Mexican systems.

Queer Labor Histories and Workplace Organizing

Recovers and analyzes the historical and contemporary roles of queer and trans workers in labor movements across North America.

Asian American Model Minority Myth Deconstruction

Critiques the model minority discourse and examines socioeconomic diversity, racism, and precarity within Asian American communities.

Pandemic Memory and Collective Trauma Processing

Documents and analyzes how communities narrate, memorialize, and process collective trauma from COVID-19 pandemic experiences.

Indigenous Sovereignty and Water Infrastructure

Investigates Indigenous water management systems, infrastructure projects, and conflicts over hydrological governance in North America.

Borderland Economies and Informal Trade Networks

Analyzes informal economic practices, smuggling networks, and cross-border commerce in North American frontier zones.

Climate Migration and Territorial Displacement

Examines how climate change and environmental degradation displace communities and reshape migration patterns across North America.

Reparations Economics and Wealth Redistribution

Analyzes economic models, policy proposals, and theoretical frameworks for reparations to address historical injustices in North America.

Drag Performance and Gender Transgression Politics

Examines drag and performance art as contested spaces of gender experimentation, resistance, and cultural critique.

Antifascist Organizing and Community Defense

Analyzes antifascist movement strategies, tactics, and political philosophy in response to far-right mobilizations across North America.

Indigenous Language Immersion Education Models

Documents and evaluates community-based language revitalization through immersion schooling and intergenerational transmission programs.

Gentrification and Community Displacement Resistance

Examines tenant organizing, community land trusts, and grassroots resistance to displacement-driven gentrification in North American cities.

Copwatch and Citizen Monitoring Movements

Investigates organized community surveillance of police through copwatching, legal observation, and accountability campaigns.

Mexican American Literary Traditions and Canonicity

Recovers and recenters Mexican American literary aesthetics, intellectual traditions, and canon-formation debates.

Settler Colonial Universities and Complicity

Analyzes institutional complicity of North American universities in settler colonialism, land theft, and Indigenous dispossession.

Affirmative Action Dismantling and Educational Access

Examines the political and legal dismantling of affirmative action policies and implications for educational equity and access.

Arab American Surveillance and Security State

Analyzes post-9/11 surveillance regimes targeting Arab Americans and their resistance through privacy and civil rights advocacy.

Comparative North American Welfare State Retrenchment

Examines neoliberal dismantling of social safety nets and comparative policy regimes across US, Canada, and Mexico.

Indigenous Sovereignty and Intellectual Property

Investigates Indigenous intellectual property rights, cultural appropriation, and frameworks for protecting traditional knowledge systems.

Solitary Confinement and Torture Resistance

Documents prisoner resistance to solitary confinement, torture conditions, and campaigns for abolition of segregated housing units.

Latinx Queer Cultural Production and Community

Analyzes artistic, literary, and cultural expressions of Latinx queer and trans communities across North America.

Casino Capitalism and Indigenous Gaming Sovereignty

Examines Indigenous gaming enterprises as economic sovereignty strategies and internal debates about commodification and dependency.

Environmental Racism and Petrochemical Corridors

Analyzes toxic exposure, pollution burdens, and health disparities in predominantly nonwhite petrochemical industrial zones.

Sanctuary Campuses and Institutional Protection

Examines university sanctuary policies, administrative support for undocumented students, and institutional limits of protection.

Disability and Incarceration Intersectionality

Analyzes how disabled people experience criminalization, overincarceration, and violence within carceral and psychiatric systems.

Transatlantic Black Intellectual Exchanges

Traces circulation of Black radical thought, cultural production, and political movements between African diaspora and North America.

Mutual Aid Networks and Community Resilience

Documents grassroots mutual aid organizing, care infrastructure, and alternative support systems outside state and market institutions.

Indigenous STEM Education and Epistemology

Examines decolonization of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education through Indigenous epistemologies and pedagogies.

Surveillance Capitalism and Algorithmic Governance in North America

Examines how corporate data extraction and algorithmic decision-making systems shape citizenship, labor relations, and state control across North American territories.