I am an interdisciplinary historian and artist at the intersection of race, technology, and dance in post-colonial Europe.

At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), my research interests overlap in histories of race in post-colonial Europe, media ecologies, and dance. I explore these urgent themes in my Ph.D. project titled Dancing after Decolonization which investigates the history of race in surveillance and the subaltern creative resistance thereof in post-colonial Belgium through the lens of media technologies and dance from 1960 onwards. I look at how emergent "networking" technologies were not only instruments to surveil racially-profiled Black and Muslim communities in Brussels, they simultaneously facilitated the popularization of street and club dance cultures. I specifically focus on how sonic media and underground cyphers popularized hip hop and house dance, rooted in Black and Brown liberation movements in the US, in the new capital of the European Union. This project uses multiple archives (i.e. print, somatic, sonic and digital), media analysis, and (auto-)ethnography to recover and explain the earlier roots of the heightened forms of racialization and surveillance of Muslim and Black communities, especially since the global wars on terror.

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