Research
Three converging streams of inquiry — each shaped by lived experience, each demanding new forms.
Critical Dis/Ability Studies
How is disability constructed? Who benefits from its construction? What happens when we refuse the terms of that construction?
Dr. KSP's work in Critical Dis/Ability Studies interrogates the institutional, cultural, and epistemological mechanisms through which disability is made legible — and the ways disabled people resist, reimagine, and create beyond those mechanisms.
With particular attention to the intersections of race, gender, and geography, this work refuses the single-axis analyses that have historically dominated disability scholarship.
Black Feminist Scholarship
Drawing on the intellectual traditions of Black women thinkers — from Patricia Hill Collins to Sylvia Wynter — to theorize resistance, knowledge production, and the politics of care within academic and public spaces.
Caribbean Epistemology
Rooting scholarly inquiry in Caribbean ways of knowing — where diaspora, creolization, and island consciousness produce distinct frameworks for understanding power, belonging, and identity.
Publications
A selection of peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and creative scholarship.
Liming As Black Methodology: Black Early Career Scholars Engage Black Humanity in Research
Read →Sisters Doing it for Themselves: When Neurodivergence, Race, Gender, and Graduate School Collide
Read →The Second Wave is Here: Grounding Disability Justice in Higher Education
Read →"Blackness Distorts:" A Qualitative Exploration of Race and Disability in Black Women's Graduate Studies
Read →(Guest Editor) Disabled, Racially Minoritized, and Invisible: The Intersectionality of Race and Disability in Higher Education
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