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I’m an urban and economic geographer that researches cities, technology, and uneven development. I serve as Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where I’m also Affiliate Faculty in the School of Public Policy and the Department of Economics, and a Faculty Fellow at the Hilltop Institute. I currently chair the Urban Geography Specialty Group of the AAG and serve on the editorial boards of Urban Geography and Big Data & Society.

My research maps the faultlines of digital capitalism, tracing how infrastructures like data centers, algorithms, and smart city technologies reproduce inequality and reorganize space. I draw from heterodox political economics, critical GIS, and feminist and anti-racist theory to understand how capital inscribes itself in code, land, and labor. Whether through analyzing software work, critiquing classificatory algorithms, or examining AI’s footprint, I approach the digital not as abstract or virtual, but as deeply material and political. Under the theme mapping capital, I explore how presence and absence (like data, infrastructure, urban form, etc.) reveal the spatial strategies of racial capitalism. This becomes a method for identifying what’s made visible, what’s obscured, and what’s at stake in the reordering of everyday life.

For a recent reflection on this approach, see my co-authored piece on Doing Critical GIS with Taylor Shelton.

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