Amrit Trewn '14
Amrit is a doctoral candidate in the department of Social & Cultural Analysis (American studies) at New York University. While a MMUF fellow, he took courses in African American studies, critical theory, and statistics. His projects included: a genealogical study of "multiracialism" in the development of US empire; a discursive analysis of emergent predictive policing technologies in the US; and an inquiry into the role of colonial occupations across the African continent to shoring up the boundaries of the individual subject in Western Enlightenment philosophies. His dissertation excavates nineteenth-century histories of surveilling reproductive labor, statecraft, and forging racial/colonial order in Michigan. By doing so, he hopes to better understand theories of political ecology elaborated by black and Native women enduring, combatting, and evading state-sanctioned assaults on their reproductive lives.