Publications.

Queering feminist geography II: working through and working against trans-exclusionary feminisms.

Co-authored in Gender Place and Culture with the Queering Feminist Geography Collective

"We have been alarmed – as feminist scholars and activists – by the global rise of feminist movements premised on trans exclusion and cisnormativity. As a coalition of cis, queer, and trans feminists, we feel it is our responsibility to critically reflect upon these developments and equip ourselves to work against them."

2025

‘A Fairly Good Crop for White Men:’ The Political Ecology of Agricultural Science 

and Settler Colonialism between the US and Palestine.

In Journal of Political Ecology, winner of the 2023 Eric Wolf Prize from the Political Ecology Society (PESO)

"From 1919 through the early 1950s, agricultural scientists affiliated with the University of California and agricultural scientists setting up settlements in Mandatory Palestine traveled between California and Palestine on a series of research trips. Building on conversations in historical political ecology and critical political ecologies of settler colonialism and racial capitalism, this article sets out to answer: how was agricultural science part of the project of settler colonialism in both California and Palestine in the first half of the twentieth century?"

2024

In Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies

"This article reflects on the challenges and possibilities of taking a critical race and ethnic studies (CRES) approach to analyzing antisemitism. Using the organizing around a K–12 ethnic studies model curriculum in California between 2019 and 2021 as a case study example, I outline the obstacles impeding both a better incorporation of critical race and ethnic studies approaches into Jewish studies, and the integration of an understanding of antisemitism as a form of racial oppression into critical race and ethnic studies."

2024

Commodifying Indigeneity? Settler Colonialism and Racial Capitalism in Fair Trade Farming in Palestine. 

In Historical Materialism, special issue on Race and Capital

"Claims to indigeneity in Palestine straddle varied definitions: a racial category; as constructed through the colonial encounter or preceding colonialism; and as a local relation or an international juridico-political category. Using discourse analysis and ethnography of a specific Palestinian sustainable agriculture initiative, I show how for Palestinians, claiming indigeneity brings into tension potential political economic gains, social relations of struggle, and discursive formations of collective subjectivity."

2023

Campus ‘Tours of Duty’: Unsettling Everyday Militarisms through Walking.

Co-authored with Robert Moeller in Historical Geography.

"During World War II, the University of California College of Agriculture (now the University of California, Davis) was closed and transformed into the Western Signal Corps School, a radar and radio training school for the US Army. This article analyzes the militarized past and present at the University of California (UC) Davis through our "Militarized Arboretum Walking Tour." The tour comprises multiple stops through the university's Arboretum botanical garden and central campus. By combining archival materials with situated observations on natural and built environments, participants examine how militarized and colonial systems, landscapes, and legacies impact and reflect ordinary life beyond the spectacle of the battlefield or wartime."

2020

Left Coast Political Ecology: A Manifesto.

Co-authored with Ashton Bree Wesner, Ingrid Behrsin, Jeff Martin, Laura Dev, and Sophie Sapp Moore in Journal of Political Ecology.

"In this manifesto, we build on successful 2015 and 2018 workshops on the practice and value of political ecology today to communicate our origins, efforts, and ideas towards building a community of praxis amid the urgencies and uncertainties of our time. We first articulate those organizing and theoretical lineages that influence and inform our work. We trace the evolution of LCPE through diverse genealogies and cross-pollinations – from the "Berkeley School" to Black, Indigenous, feminist, and decolonial studies, through political struggles within and beyond the academy. In grappling with the challenges of our institutional histories of settler-colonial, capitalist, and racist dispossession, we then propose a "coastal epistemology", one that troubles the notion of a settler-colonial or neoliberal "frontier" while finding value in encounter, conversation, and emergence."

2019

Planting Seeds for Decolonial Futures: A Natural and Cultural History Guide to Food Plants Linking California and Palestine.

Co-authored with Chris Jadallah (UCLA). Forthcoming in Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Palestine, Lila Adib Sharif, Jennifer Lynn Kelly, and Somdeep Sen, eds. Duke University Press.

"Palestine and California, two seemingly discrete places, share deep and intimate connections through a myriad of intertwined social, political, and ecological systems. Extractive agriculture dominates the landscape in each place as the outcome and entrenchment of linked settler colonial projects. And yet, despite the dominance of these projects, people in both Palestine and California work to revitalize land-based biocultural practices as a way to imagine and enact anticolonial futures."

Forthcoming

Trains, Trees, and Terraces: Infrastructures of Settler Colonialism and Resistance in the Refaim Valley, Palestine-Israel.

In Gendered infrastructures: space, scale, and identity, Yaffa Truelove and Anu Sabhlok, eds. West Virginia University Press.

"I argue that Israeli settler colonialism and the attempted erasure of Palestinian landscapes and lifeways can be understood as an infrastructural process. Israel defines itself, and its place in a dominant hierarchy of modernity, through infrastructural violence. This infrastructural violence, I contend, is a form of gendered violence even when it does not directly target gendered bodies, because Israel aims to inhibit Palestinian social, economic, and biological reproduction through infrastructural control."

2024

Situating the Transnational in Agrarian Palestine.

Co-authored with Paul Kohlbry (UCSB). In Resisting Domination in Palestine: New Techniques of Control, Coloniality and Settler Colonialism, Alaa Tartir, Timothy Siedel, and Tariq Dana, eds. I.B Taurus/Bloomsbury. 

"Transnational forces are key to understanding agrarian Palestine today. By this, we mean that transnational capital, markets, regulations, and technologies shape the production, circulation, and consumption of Palestinian agriculture: from soils and seeds; to the labor of planting, care, and harvesting; to marketing and circulation; to consumption both in Palestine and in places like Oakland and Chicago where we were writing from. A transnational framing, we think, has much to offer the critical scholarship of agrarian life in Palestine that is emerging in the field of Palestinian studies."

2024

Review of Race and the Question of Palestine, edited by Lana Tatour and Ronit Lentin (Stanford University Press, 2025). 

For Ethnic and Racial Studies

2025

Review of Struggling for Time: Environmental Governance and Agrarian Resistance in Israel/Palestine by Natalia Gutkowski (Stanford University Press, 2024).

For International Journal of Middle East Studies.

2025

Wartime’s ‘Undeniable Linkages’: Feminist Studies of Everyday Militarisms across Time and Space

Review of Attachments to War: Biomedical Logics and Violence in Twenty-First-Century America by Jennifer Terry (Duke University Press, 2017); Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above by Caren Kaplan (Duke University Press, 2018); and Reencounters: On the Korean War and Diasporic Memory by Crystal Mun-hye Baik (Temple University Press, 2020). For Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience special issue on "Domestication of War."

"This essay reviews three monographs in the emergent field of “everyday militarisms,” a new direction forward for understanding and criticizing global war in the past, present, and future. Threading connections between feminist science studies, cultural studies, and women of color and transnational feminisms, these texts ask us to more closely consider how elements of war show up in ordinary formations."

2023