Seeing Like A Political Scientist is an article I’m tinkering with that explores the diversity of how political science works as a field of knowledge production. The paper is simultaneously a genealogy of political science and an homage to the discipline.

The Haitian Problem? Is an article that maps the disparate origins of the so-called “Haitian Problem” in the United States. Utilizing genealogical inquiry this paper connects contemporary discourse to a long history of policies, ideas, and material histories that shape the perpetual outsider status of Haitians and Haiti in US politics.

A Brief History of Migration Crises and the United States is an article that reformulates my dissertation in more precise and concise ways. Using comparative historical analysis and genealogical inquiry the paper traces how “migration crises” came to dominate US immigration discourse and policy formulation.