His research utilizes U.S. cultural studies frameworks to explore the interface between race, culture, knowledge, and the state. Feldman recently edited a forum on “Blackness and Relationality” in Comparative Literature, and co-edited a special issue of Social Text on “Race/Religion/War.” His first book, A Shadow over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in America (Minnesota 2015), was named Best Book in Humanities and Cultural Studies by the Association for Asian American Studies, and was a Finalist for the Romero Best First Book Prize in American Studies.