Biography

Welcome to my website! Before joining the faculty at the Landscapes of Population Health program at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research (2024-present), I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Duke University (2023-2024) and a Lecturer at Washington University in St. Louis (2021-2023). I earned my PhD in Sociology at UNC-Chapel Hill. My research interests include population health, immigration, race and racialization, and political change. I am especially interested in how historical practices of social control provoke changes in local institutions that unfold across historical time into the development of contemporary place-based disparities. My ongoing projects connect historical violence to health disparities, for instance, by analyzing how historical practices of social control like sundown town practices restricting the mobility of Black people shaped local institutions in ways that entrenched unequal access to health resources, resulting in racially unequal exposure to the proximal determinants of health (e.g., air pollution and vulnerability to state violence). Here you can find information about my current research projects, teaching, and code for future projects.