I am currently developing my first book manuscript, Oceanic Groundings: Left Internationalism and Black Feminist Journeying Through Insurgent Seas. Oceanic Groundings weaves together archives of anticolonial struggle and state repression, travel memoirs and shipboard writings, oral histories, and analysis of novels and plays. The project develops a methodology and theoretical framework for exploring the radical politics of intimacy, labor, solidarity, and learning that were routed through port cities and maritime vessels in the early twentieth century. The project is based upon two years of archival research conducted in collections held in: the Netherlands, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom, the United States, and South Africa.
