Book:
∙ Ocean to Ocean. A Geographical Portrait of Detroit Techno, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, MI (forthcoming – 2025).
Selected Articles:
∙ “Sample, Résistance et Message Caché dans la Musique Noire Américaine”, Wild Rumors, Éditions Loco, Paris, FR (2023);
∙ “Alleys of your Mind, a Decade in Detroit Budding Club Music Scene 1977-1987”, Fade 2 Grey, Androgyny, Style and Art in 80’s Pop Music, Design-Diversity, Washington D.C. (2021);
∙ “Black to Detroit, aux Origines Médiatiques de la Techno”, in Réseaux, Vol. 223/5, Paris, FR (2020);
∙ “Detroit Techno, an Afrofuturistic Fascination for Sound and Technology,” in Night Fever. Designing Club Culture 1960-today; Vitra Museum Press, Weil am Rhein, GER (2018);
∙ “Détroit, Ville Techno : Analyse Musicale et Géographique d’une Ville Noire en Pleine Mutation” in L’information Géographique, Vol. 81/1, Paris, FR (2017).
Selected Conferences:
∙ Panel Discussion “Detroit 80’s Club Culture”, Walter O. Evans Center of African American Studies, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2021);
∙ Conference “A Geographical Portrait of Detroit Techno”, Léviathan Research Group, School of the Beaux-Arts, Clermont-Ferrand, FR (2020);
∙ Conference “An Introduction to Detroit Black Music History”, symposium "Détroit, Entrer en Résistance pour faire la Ville de Demain", Maison de l’Architecture, Paris, FR (2018);
∙ Conference “Techno Music in Detroit. Geography and Politics", Brown Bag Colloquium Series, Humanities Center, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI (2017);
∙ Conference “African American Culture in Paris", Detroit Sound Conference, Lawrence Tech University, Detroit, MI (2016);
∙ Conference “Détroit, Ville Techno. Analyse Musicale et Géographique”, symposium "Musique et Attachement, Lieux, Territoires et Scènes Musicales", University of Bordeaux-Montaigne & CNRS, Bordeaux, FR (2016).
Selected TEACHING ACTIVITY:
∙ Université Sorbonne Nord, Paris, FR; Graduate Seminar Course « Race, Genre et Minorités » - Master Sciences de l’Éducation, parcours Politiques Sociales, Territoires et Stratégies de Direction;
∙ Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, FR; Undergraduate courses including Oral Communication; Cultural Production of the African Diaspora; Postcolonial History - Départment Arts et Média, Institut de la Communication et des Médias.
Projects:
Consulting for artistic, media, cultural, and academic projects.
These include Learning from Detroit Exhibition at the Maison de L’Architecture d'Île-de-France; Maison de la Recherche Sorbonne Nouvelle; Michigan University’s Racism Lab; Trax Magazine; Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Clermont-Ferrand.