Invited Presentations
Faculty Facilitator, Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group, reading Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness, by John L. Jackson, Jr. (Basic Books 2008) The Wolfe Institute, Spring 2016.
Are Psychiatrically Confined Children Really Mentally Ill? Lessons about American Childhood from inside a Mental Institution on Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group invited panel "From the Streets to the Asylum: Medicalizing Vulnerable Children" co-chair, co-organizer, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Denver. November 18–22, 2015.
Friendship, Love, and Hip Hop. Book talk presented by The Wolfe Institute, Brooklyn College. October 21 and November 4, 2015.
Ethics and Field Methods: An Anthropological Perspective. Graduate course in Island Long Term Human Ecodynamics, CUNY Graduate Center. March 18, 2015.
Race, Power, and Psychiatry: Institutionalized Youth in America. Fall 2014 Anthropology Colloquium Series Ph.D. Program in Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center. October 31, 2014.
The American Racial State, Psychiatry, and Counter-hegemonic Cultural Practices. Free University of Tiblisi, Republic of Georgia. November 15, 2014.
Race to Recovery: Perspectives on Adolescent Psychiatry from the Confines of a Mental Institution. Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Psychiatry Interest Group, Rutgers University. February 27, 2014.
A Keepin It Real Group: Sincerity in Therapeutic Intervention. Columbia University Seminar, Culture, Power, and Boundaries. March 3, 2014.
Race Workings in Psychiatric Care. Transcultural Psychiatry Research Center, Pôle Clinique du Centre Minkowska. Paris. October 2013.
Race, Intimacy, and Autonomy in Institutional Psychiatry in the United States, invited for special lecture at Université Paris Descartes, Paris. September 19, 2013.
"You Gotta Do You": Racial sincerity, mental health treatment, and institutionalized African American youth. Behavioral Science Senior Seminar: "Mental Illness Across Cultural Divides." Drew University, Madison, New Jersey. February 22, 2012.
