I write and teach about race, environment, and U.S. empire in the Americas and am an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. My writing has appeared in Environment and Planning D, Public Culture, and Antipode. I received a PhD in American Studies from New York University in 2021 and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows at Columbia University, where I was affiliated with the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and the Department of Anthropology. Before joining Stanford, I was Assistant Professor of Urban and Environmental Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
My current book project asks how imperial violence is reproduced in the U.S. suburb. The book moves across three linked sites in Homestead, Florida: a military base, a detention camp for migrant children, and the political organizations of Indigenous Maya migrant workers. In 2023, my manuscript was selected for the Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century Series at the University of California Press.
A second project turns to urbanization and environmental repair in peripheral neighborhoods of Bogotá, and draws on ethnographic fieldwork and collaboration with former guerrilla combatants in Colombia’s civil war.
My work is grounded in the principles and practices of research justice. I currently research and write with coalitions fighting migrant detention in South Florida. I grew up in Santa Rosa, California, and live in Los Angeles.