I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Sociology Department of the University of Minnesota and was the 2013-2014 and the 2015 Bernard and Fern Badzin Graduate Fellow in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (University of Minnesota). This year, 2017-2018 I am a visiting fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard. My research focuses how media fields construct knowledge about instances of massive human rights violations. Specifically, I examine how media fields in Africa construct knowledge instances of massive human rights violations, particularly the atrocities in Darfur. When not studying/researching/working I play video games and loudly support Manchester United