Michael is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. His research, scholarship, and teaching is focused on the ways that racialization patterns human relations to environments, land, and nonhuman forms of nature, both culturally and materially. He is committed to de/postcolonial modalities of knowledge production and dissemination, and finds inspiration in the praxis of W.E.B. Du Bois. Michael’s scholarship has been published in Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, Environmental Justice, and Humanity and Society. To reach audiences beyond the academy, he has also co-authored several Op-Eds for various publications, in addition to a policy briefing published by Adaptation Watch.
He received a B.A. in Sociology (with distinction) from the University of San Diego, where he also studied Philosophy and Peace and Justice Studies. Both his M.A. (2014) and Ph.D. (2018) in Sociology were received from Brown University.
Michael is an admirer of: Buddhist and Daoist philosophy, the music of Rory Ferreira, Moses Sumney, and Flying Lotus, the films of Adam Curtis, Barry Jenkins, and Terrance Nance, writing and reading poetry—especially Henry Dumas, and vegetarian cuisine.
He received a B.A. in Sociology (with distinction) from the University of San Diego, where he also studied Philosophy and Peace and Justice Studies. Both his M.A. (2014) and Ph.D. (2018) in Sociology were received from Brown University.
Michael is an admirer of: Buddhist and Daoist philosophy, the music of Rory Ferreira, Moses Sumney, and Flying Lotus, the films of Adam Curtis, Barry Jenkins, and Terrance Nance, writing and reading poetry—especially Henry Dumas, and vegetarian cuisine.