Before coming to Davis, he played an active role in the early stages of both the Berkeley Center for New Media and the CITRIS Data & Democracy Initiative at UC Berkeley, where he received his PhD. His research focuses on documentary practices across photography, film, and digital media, and places established modes of representation alongside emergent media such as data visualization and virtual environments. His essays on digital technology and documentary have recently appeared in Film Quarterly and Screen and are forthcoming in several edited anthologies in Contemporary Documentary from Routledge. He is currently working on a book entitled Where Truth Lies: Digital Culture and Documentary Film after 9/11.