Raymond is a third year PhD student in the Department of Geography at Rutgers University. His research interests engage most closely with Black European and Atlantic studies, urban geography & governance, postcolonial theory, mobility and surveillance studies, sonic geographies, blues and hip hop epistemology, and the politics of belonging and citizenship.
His research aims to explore these traditions through a focus on how sonic landscapes (i.e., the way a place sounds and how places are governed and experienced through sound) and the overall sensory environment shape regimes of urban governance – everything from police profiling, to microaggressions, to everyday movement – and a black sense of place. His interests lie, in particular, in examining this relation through the lived experiences of French minority youth citizens in the suburbs of Paris, France.