Research

Defining Violences

My book project, “Defining Violences: Fielding Intimate Partner Violence in Argentina and the United States” is a comparative study of the intimate partner violence fields of action in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Boston, Massachusetts. Based on my dissertation, this project involved ethnographic and archival research conducted between 2015-2020, including 13 months of ethnographic research conducted in Argentina and the U.S. between 2019-2020. In this project, I bring a temporal lens to the issue of IPV.

I extend the concept of slow violence to theorize how the temporality of IPV shapes the practices of service providers in Buenos Aires and Boston.

I also develop the concept of temporal regimes to analyze field variances. I argue that between 2015-2020 the field of Boston was oriented towards the future through a temporal regime of prevention that centers discourses of public health, while Buenos Aires was oriented towards the present through a temporal regime of recuperation that centers discourses of embodied citizenship.

Cascading Lives

Since 2018, I have been involved as a research associate with the “Cascading Lives: Stories of Loss, Resistance, and Mobility” project. This project was directed by Dr. Karen V. Hansen and Dr. Nazli Kibria and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Raikes Foundation through the Voices for Economic Opportunity Challenge. As a research associate, I conducted life history interviews in Spanish and English with participants from Massachusetts and Georgia and contributed to the Cascading Lives Digital Toolkit, a package of teaching materials about economic inequality and mobility in the U.S. that utilizes narratives from our life history interviews. You can read some of these narratives, see the curriculum toolkit, and learn more about the research process at our website.

Archiving Queer life at Brandeis university

During the summer of 2018, I was part of a small team that started the “Queer History at Brandeis University” project sponsored by the Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. With this project, I and my collaborator Rebecca Barton engaged in archival research and conducted life history interviews with Brandeis University alumni and faculty. Our research was used to create a visual history timeline of queer life at the university and a limited run podcast on the experiences of Brandeis LGBTQ faculty and students. If interested in this history, you can engage with both the timeline and podcast here.