current projects
Research on Immigration Law Enforcement
Since 2007 I have been conducting research on the unlawful detention and deportation of U.S. citizens. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has no jurisdiction over U.S. citizens. In many cases ICE agents are guilty of false arrest and kidnapping.States without Nations: Citizenship for Mortals, book, click here to order
New Directions in Critical Theory series, ed. Amy Allen, Columbia University Press, 2009.
History and theory for imagining governance in a world that allows for the free movement of people regardless of ancestry or place of birth. The book pursues four thought experiments imagining the elimination of laws that cater to anxieties about death, as these lead us to kill and risk death. The book envisions governance consistent with the human condition of mortality.
Human Being Project
Book manuscript in progress. Documents the origin of the U.S. HGP in the Manhattan Project and the continued resonance of racism and eugenics in this line of research.