CURRENT RESEARCH: My research develops Diasporic Spatial Literacy as a framework for interpreting the autonomous spatial logics of diasporic communities, synthesizing literary theory, cultural geography, and architectural spatial analysis. Through GIS mapping of 134 archival Second Line parade route flyers from 1980 to 2025, the work demonstrates how these communities generate rather than merely resist spatial orders

Spatial Theory & Framework Development

• Diasporic Spatial Literacy (DSL) — original framework for interpreting autonomous spatial logics of marginalized communities
• Postcolonial spatial theory and its limitations in addressing generative spatial practices
• Non-hierarchical network structures in cultural spatial systems

New Orleans Cultural Geographies

• Second Line parade route networks as autonomous spatial orders (1980-2025)
• Black Masking Indian processions as psychogeographic praxis
• Bounce music as sonic spatial narrative
• Vernacular spatial knowledge systems and their relationship to formal architectural discourse

Methodology & Pedagogy

Spatial literacy pedagogy — teaching students to read sites as cultural knowledge systems/GIS spatial analysis of archival cultural data/Digital archival platforms for community cultural data