selected writing

academic writing

• 2016 forthcoming  "Cesária Évora: Sounding Out of Bounds." Out of Bounds. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA.
• 2016 forthcoming  "Nos lingua, nos kultura, nos identidadi [Our language, our culture, our identity]: Postcolonial Language and Cultural Planning in Cape Verde and the Cape Verdean Diaspora." African Islands: Spaces of Transition on a Global Stage. Toyin Falola, ed.
• 2016 forthcoming  "Music: An Exception to Creole Exceptionalism? Cape Verdean National Identity and Creativity Post-Independence." Social Dynamics: A Journal of African Studies.
• 2015 (with Kathryn Sampeck, Illinois State University)  "The Bitter and Sweet of Chocolate in Europe." [pdf] Socio.hu: The Social Meaning of Food: Special Issue in English No. 3, Institute for Sociology, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 37-60.
• 2012  "Sounding Creole: The Politics of Cape Verdean Language, Music, and Diaspora." Unpublished dissertation. Harvard University.
• 2010  "Cesária Évora: 'The Barefoot Diva' and Other Stories." [pdf] Transition 103: Cabo Verde, Indiana University Press, 82-97.
• 2010  "Introduction to Cape Verdean Selections." [pdf] Transition 103: Cabo Verde, Indiana University Press, 4-6.

online writing

• 2012  "Brownies: The History of a Classic American Dessert." US History Scene.
• 2011-present  Bittersweet Notes: Chocolate, Culture, and the Politics of Food.
• 2011  "Chocolate's Bittersweet Legacy." The Root. October 31.
• 2011  "Case Studies in Teaching: Complexity in the Classroom, Case 1, Part 1." The Bok Blog. September 19.
• 2011  "Case Studies in Teaching: Complexity in the Classroom, Case 1, Part 2." The Bok Blog. September 27.

editing

• 2010 (Guest Editor)  Cabo Verde cluster. Transition 103: Cabo Verde, Indiana University Press, 2-109.

translation

• forthcoming (with Inês Brito, trans.)  "Caliban: The Archetype of Servitude," by Luís Kandjimbo. Translation from Portuguese to English. The Savannah Review.
• 2010 (with Inês Brito, trans.)  "Dilinha," by Danny Spínola. Translated from Cape Verdean Creole to English. Transition 103: Cabo Verde, Indiana University Press, 18-25.