“Stairway to Heaven: One Family’s Journey in the Eldercare Business in America”: An autoethnographic study that follows a family eldercare business from before the advent of Medicare through the Covid pandemic.
“A Crack in the Wall: American Grifters, Urban Tricksters, and the Making of Donald J. Trump”: American con men and the archetypes and narratives that paved the way for our current cultural climate that has elevated con artists to the highest ranks of political power in the United States.
“Collecting Disaster” is an examination of archival collections in the Davis Library, New York City, a library dedicated to the industry of risk management. This project reframes the actuarial representation of risk to the realms of humanities scholarship, uncovering new political and cultural implications in rare and under-examined visual and material artifacts. The project is a collaboration with art historian and curator, Dr. Susan Rosenberg.