Contact Information
607 S Mathews Ave.
M/C 148
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Interests
queer anthropology, anthropology of religion, affect studies, Black studies, performance studies, Pentecostalism, Brazil
Research Description
I am a doctoral candidate in Anthropology working at the intersection of the anthropology of religion, queer and trans studies, and affect studies. My research builds upon these fields to analyze the ways the sacred shapes minoritiarian worldmaking, especially in “minor” spaces such as embodiment, friendship, conviviality, and other intimate domains that are infused with spiritual presence. My dissertation Until I Overflow: Queer Pentecostal Intimacies in an Uncertain Brazil ethnographically examines Pentecostal igrejas inclusivas (inclusive churches) and the everyday intimacies of queer Pentecostal life. It argues that the intersection of queer and Pentecostal is not one of contradistinction but of possibility for imagining otherwise the intimacies and affects that shape minoritarian life.
Grants
2024-2025 Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Illinois
2022 Love Fellowship, Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies, University of Illinois (also held in 2021)
2021-2022 Humanities Research Institute Graduate Fellowship, Humanities Research Institute, University of Illinois
2020-2021 Holstein Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, Riverside
2020 Nicholson Graduate Fellowship, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois
2019-2020 Werner Baer Doctoral Fellowship, Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies, University of Illinois
2019-2020 Lemann Graduate Fellowship, Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies, University of Illinois (declined)
2019 Sarah Pettit Doctoral Fellowship in Lesbian Studies, Yale University
2019-2020 FLAS Fellowship, Portuguese, University of Illinois (also held in 2018-2017 and 2017-2016)
2013-2014 Public Engagement Grant, University of Illinois