The History and Politics Lab’s goal is, in Toni Morrison’s words, to shed critical light on the “politics and history calculated to render the suffering of millions mute,” by refusing “arrogant pseudo-empirical language crafted to lock creative people into cages of inferiority and hopelessness.”

The lab, which is hosted by UC Irvine’s School of Social Ecology, is currently developing the following projects:

Brasil Initiative (CAPES)

History and Politics Virtual Community (Western Political Science Association, with Vikram Visana)

Participatory Budget and Democratic Resilience: A Mixed-Method Project (with Arwa Hammad, Sally Casanova Scholarship)

U.S. Concentration, Detention, and Internment Camps (DREAM Project)

Critical and Interpretive Methods in Law and Society: A Workshop for Graduate Students and Early Career Scholars (2025 Advance Grant, Law and Society Association)

The Voices of Democracy: a Ten-minute Monologue Festival (2025 VOICE Grant, UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement)

More soon!