I am a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Broadly, I draw from and contribute to discussions in political sociology, economic sociology, and urban sociology. My research lies at the intersection of place-making, homeownership, rights to urban space, and urban inequality. I investigate how neighborhoods are produced, how communities understand and enact rights to urban space, and how these processes function to generate, maintain, or moderate neighborhood inequality. I use a mix of ethnographic/interview methods, historical-comparative methods, and quantitative spatial analysis in my research.

​My research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Institute for Regional and International Studies, the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology, the Fulbright Student Program, and the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Award.

Standing at the Mexico-Guatemala border.