Research and Projects

Histories of Spectral Evidence

This project explores the entwined histories of the occult and the American legal system.

The Occult Internet

This project explores the role of the Internet in contemporary occult practice and culture.

Doxa: media artifacts of conspiracy

This project interrogates the role of particular media objects in conspiracy theory thinking. In particular, I am interested in collective and individual analyses of artifacts and how they function as evidential touchpoints for a more expansive set of theories.

Paranet: Cultures of Evidence

This work focuses on an early internet Bulletin Board System that brought together “alternative research.” I am interested in how these communities evaluated and came to consensus on particular forms of evidence and how they created parallel cultures of research and legitimation.