about
I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Global Studies in the Department of Political, Social, and Cultural Sciences at Kean University as well as a Visiting Research Scholar in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center. I completed my PhD at Syracuse University in the Department of Geography and the Environment in 2020. Prior to joining Kean University, I taught in Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies at College of the Holy Cross.
As an immigration scholar, I am interested in how law and policy shape Latina/o/x migrants’ mobility, subjectivity, and everyday experience. I focus, in particular, on immigration from Central and South America to and toward the United States, through which I grapple with questions over international borders, “climate migration,” immigration enforcement, policing, race and ethnicity, and violence. My research often sits at the intersection between two, key threads: (1) the politics of international migration and mobility across the Americas, and (2) the social and spatial dimensions of border and immigration enforcement in predominately urban sites and spaces. I am also interested in qualitative methods, especially ethnography, and the ethical and moral dilemmas of conducting fieldwork.
My most recent work is available here and here. For a full list of publications, see here.