Research
How are power, agency, and responsibility produced between people, rather than simply held by them? Each thread below follows that question into a different corner of organizational life. They share a method: set aside the easy explanations, and look at the relational processes that generate a pattern and quietly reproduce it.
Leadership is not something a leader simply has; it is produced, in part, by the people around them. Through a participatory-theatre framework, I study the roles audiences play in making and unmaking a leader, and how those roles co-create both authority and its abuses.
Harmful practices rarely arrive as obvious villainy; they become ordinary. I study how toxicity is normalized in organizations through a cascade of small, reasonable-seeming steps, and how professional expertise itself can corrode.
When organizations hand judgment to algorithms, accountability has a way of going missing. I study the governance of digital commons and generative AI: how "wicked" resources resist ownership, and how bias accumulates for those already at the margins.
Individuals are real, and they are also shaped by the collectives they move through. I study how agency forms across levels: what a group makes possible or forecloses for a person, and what it means to take both seriously at once.
Who gets to speak, to belong, to be recognized? I study inclusion and its limits, drawing on decolonial critique and theories of fairness to understand how exclusion is produced and how voice is suppressed or won.