Expertise

Her research explores questions of power and inequality at the nexus of law, science, technology, and the nonhuman. In particular, she is interested in relationships of technoscience, governance, gender, race, indigeneity, plants, health, and justice within histories of South Africa and Appalachia. Her innovative interdisciplinary research contributes to conversations in feminist science and technology studies (STS), critical plant studies, socio-legal studies, Indigenous and Native studies, African studies, critical intellectual property studies, and feminist data studies.


Research + Teaching Interests:

  • feminist postcolonial science studies; feminist science studies; science and technology studies; feminist and critical race legal theory; transnational/postcolonial feminisms; feminist research methodologies; human rights and intellectual property law


Regional Expertise:

  • South Africa
Communities
Gender Studies, African Studies
Degrees
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, Women’s Studies, 2012
MA, University of Cincinnati, Women’s Studies, 2000
JD, University of Cincinnati, 2000
BA, Georgetown University, Government and Economics, 1995