I study how property relations structure social identity, inform collective action, and mold shared understandings that distinguish legitimate and illegitimate market practices. I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Michigan with Project SPLICE, where I research the use of internet-enabled technology in housing markets. I received my PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I taught classes in research methods and data management. 

My research explores the social relations that constitute residential property as simultaneously a necessary space of social reproduction, a financial asset, a source of livelihood, a product of community labor, and a producer of social identity. One project examines how twentieth-century programs of property redistribution continue to shape Mexico City's social and material landscapes. A second project explores how Milwaukee's "municipalized" neighborhoods offer residents and organizers novel tools to address disinvestment, but also formalize a calculus for distributing rights based on notions of moral and economic contribution.

In another project, colleagues and I used administrative records to construct a novel historical dataset that traces Mexico-U.S. migration flows in the early twentieth century. A first paper (published in Demography​) uses this data to examine how perceived skin tone stratified migrant outcomes after settlement in the United States. A current project uses this data to explore how collective agricultural land grants shaped emigration patterns.

​My research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellowship,  the Institute for Research on Poverty, the Fulbright Student Program, UW-Madison's Institute for Regional and International Studies, and the Crowe Scholarship from UW-Madison's Department of Community & Environmental Sociology.

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