About
My areas of study include border studies, carceral studies, and political theory, with a focus on immigration and human rights in the Americas. Urgent humanitarian crises in the present prompt me to seek legal and cultural antecedents in history. By examining glaring examples of injustice, I hope to imagine what an expansive and humanistic justice could look like. To that end, I practice a publicly active scholarship that is informed by on-the-ground work. I have traveled to sites on the US-Mexico border and worked alongside lawyers and other advocates aiming to provide asylum seekers with access to legal representation and due process under the law. This experience drives an interdisciplinary research methodology, uniting legal-historical archival research with carceral studies and political theory. I am investigating what militarized immigration enforcement tactics, the criminalization of migration, and the mass detention of asylum seekers might reveal about the reconfiguration of geopolitical power over the last century.
