writing and research.
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My research focuses on media access, considering how the distribution of documentary + nonfiction film is a political and cultural taste-making practice. My research often attends to nontheatrical, ‘useful,’ and orphaned films.
My writing has appeared in Cineaste, Film History, the Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, Décadrages: Cinéma, à travers champs,The Moving Image, and edited volumes insUrgent Media from the Front: A Media Activism Reader, Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film, and A Century in 16mm, among others.
Works-In-Progress
I am currently completing a monograph on the career of labor activist-turned-film distributor Thomas J. Brandon. My second book will explore film societies on U.S. college campuses in the 1960s and ‘70s; another will be an in-depth study of postwar documentary before observational turn.
Other works-in-progress include:
An essay on the alienating aesthetics of ‘docudrama’ The Savage Eye (Ben Maddow, Sidney Meyers, and Joseph Strick, 1959) based on presentations I’ve delivered at Doclisboa in fall 2023 and the Hollywood Conference in summer 2025
An article on nontheatrical distribution company Swank Motion Picture Company’s ability to overcome technological ‘disruption’ and successfully pivot from analog to digital delivery from the 1930s to present
An article on media researcher Dorothy B. Jones, an early figure in film content analysis, revised from an award-winning paper from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ Caucus on Class
