Languages
Spanish; Latin; German (Beginner)Biography
My lived experience as a Marine Infantryman (2007-2017) with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, and as a stableman for the Marine Mounted Color Guard has led me to try to understand the emotional implications the military and war have on soldiers/veterans and their communities. To this extent, I am reading histories, chronologies, philosophies, and memoirs from the early modern period, which roughly spans the ‘military revolution’ and the beginning of the ‘scientific revolution’ (c. 1520-1700). I situate myself at the intersection of philosophy, history, theology, cultural studies, aesthetic theory, and medical humanities, with a focus on war and violence across transatlantic spaces; viz., early colonial North and South America. I am thinking through two frameworks of strong negative emotions (passion, hate, anger, fear) & holy affects (love, joy, hope, gratitude) and the ways that these dialectically intertwine and are culturally re-shaped in strange permutations in the context of war/violence, and seek to intervene in the emotion studies’ military turn.