I am a 6th year PhD candidate in sociology. My dissertation uses archival and mixed methods to study nineteenth-century U.S. land policy, higher education, class structure and conflict, settler colonialism, and capitalism. I’m broadly interested in theories of state and governance, as well as histories of capitalist racism. Prior to doing my PhD, I was a teacher in public and private schools in California.

I have published in City and Community, Contexts Magazine, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Social Science History Journal (forthcoming) and The Routledge Encyclopedia of Race and Racism (forthcoming).

I am also an artist and musician. I paint, draw, and create mixed media pieces, combining expressive figurative work with abstraction and texture. I’m in two bands. I play drums in this band, and I write songs with guitar and sing in this band. I tend to think everyone should create something despite fear that the thing created may turn out bad.