My research and writing explore the religious dimensions of whiteness, private property, and mass criminalization, and elucidate religious resources for a world beyond white supremacist, capitalist, and carceral systems.
My first book, White Property, Black Trespass: The Religion of Mass Criminalization, is under contract with NYU Press and will be published in its Religion and Social Transformation series in Fall 2023. The book develops an account of the criminalization of Black and economically dispossessed peoples as a religious project that serves and protects the pseudo-sacred social order of patriarchal whiteness and private property by exiling those who trespass against it to carceral hell.
I have also facilitated and co-authored publications and collaborative reports on the criminalization of homelessness, racial profiling in police traffic stops and searches, and public funding for police and jails that eclipses spending on the public goods that actually create safe and thriving communities (2020, 2021).