Subfield: Social Stratification and Mobility, Education

Subfield: Historical Sociology; Political Sociology; Social Theory; Political Violence and War; Human Rights, Democracy, and Foreign Policy; Modern Iraq.

Subfield: Computational sociology; Culture; Cognitive sociology; Language; Sociology of health and illness; Stigma

Subfield: Sociology of gender, political sociology, socialism and postsocialism, comparative and historical sociology, ethnography

Subfield: Race and Ethnicity; Economic Sociology; Urban and Suburban Sociology; Housing; Health; Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility; Ethnography

Subfield: International Migration, Race & Ethnicity, Social Stratification & Mobility, Quantitative Methods

Subfield: Social Stratification, Education, Military, Race & Ethnicity, Demography

Subfield: Organizations and Work, Gender Stratification, Family, Caregiving, Military and Veterans, Demography, Computational Methods

Subfield: Political Sociology; Comparative-Historical Sociology; War & Armed Conflict; Elections; Gender; Genocide

Subfield: International Migration, Forced Migration, Sociology of Law, Refugee & Asylum Law, Ethnography, Comparative & Historical Sociology, Political Sociology, Qualitative Methods, Human Rights

Subfield: Sociology of Medicine, Sociology of Gender, Ethnography, Conversational Analysis, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Justice, Global Health, Health Inequalities 

Subfield: Race & Ethnicity, Gender, Labor, Political Sociology. 

Subfield: community and urban sociology; inequality, poverty, and mobility; sociology of population; political sociology; organizations, occupations, and work

Subfield: International Migration, Political Sociology, Forced Migration, Refugee Resettlement, Organizations, Qualitative Methods

Subfield: Immigration, Education, Aging, and Health 

Subfield: Stratification and Inequality, Quantitative and Computational Methods, Career and Technical Education

Subfield: Race & Ethnicity, Social Psychology, Family.

Subfield: Sociology of Knowledge, Expertise, and Science; Economic Sociology; Sociology of Culture; Comparative Historical Sociology; Sociology of Education; Sociology of Health

Subfield: Medical Sociology; Race and Ethnicity; Social Movements; Critical Race Theory; Gender and Sexuality; Black Feminist Thought

 My research interests revolve around the relationships between cultural politics and nation-building processes, both for international and domestic consumption. 

Subfield: Political Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Race and Ethnicity, Tourism, Caribbean Studies

Subfield: Conversation Analysis, Gender, Race

Subfield: Social Stratification and Inequality, Education, Comparative Political Economy, Organizations

Subfield: International Migration, Social Stratification

Subfield: Sociology of the family, Women's health, Social safety net policies, Demographic and qualitative methods

Subfield: Medical Sociology, Reproduction, Gender, Ethnography 

Subfield: Political Sociology, International Migration, Comparative Ethnicity and Nationalism, Middle East Studies

Subfield: Race & Ethnicity; Social Movements; Qualitative Methods

Subfield: International Migration, Race and Ethnicity,  Environmental and Political Sociology, Political Economy, Organizations

Subfield: Conversation Analysis, Social Interaction

Subfield: Race and Ethnicity; Ethnographic Methods; Community and Urban Sociology

Description of Previous and Ongoing Research Projects

• The Formation of Cosmologies on Death and Dying in Gang Members (2017)
• The Construction of the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Project and Gentrification in the Crenshaw District (2017) - Research Assistantship, Dr. Karida Brown

• The Effectiveness of Homeless Court Programs in Los Angeles (2017-2018) - Research Assistantship, Dr. Yeheskel "Zeke" Hasenfeld, (Rest In Peace, Zeke)

• The Contributions of Joan Moore to the Development of Critical Gang Studies and Reflexive Research Methodology (2019) - Collaboration with Dr. Robert Weide

• Traumatic Loss and Social Reproductions of Urban Violence in L.A. (ongoing)
• Income Generation Strategies, Job Seeking and Employment for Gang Members in a Gentrifying Los Angeles (ongoing)

Subfield: Critical Gang Studies; Material Scarcity; Social Violence; Hyper-Incarceration; Ethnography; Theory

Subfield: Race and Ethnicity, Gender, Class, Education, Immigration, Social Networks, Social Stratification, and Mobility.

Subfield: Subfield: Race & Ethnicity, Economy Sociology, Quantitative and Computational Methods

Subfield: Sociology of medicine and health; Disability studies; Conversation Analysis; Ethnography

Subfield: Social Demography, Education, Reproductive and Sexual Health, Sociology of Health, Immigrant Health, International Migration, International Development, Emigrant Policies and Politics, State-Diaspora Relations, Latin America, United States, Qualitative and Quantitative Methods, Spatial Analysis

Subfield: Conversation Analysis, Ethnomethodology, childhood socialization, early childhood education, classroom interaction

Subfield: Urban Sociology, Housing and Housing Policy, Law and Society, Organizations and Institutions, Race and Ethnicity, and Ethnographic Methods.

Subfield: Social Movements, Organizations, Economic Sociology, Computational Sociology, Comparative Historical Methods, Quantitative Methods, Short-term Rental Markets in the Platform Economy

Subfield: economic sociology, organizations, and international migration

Subfield: Settler Colonialism, Economy, Culture, Race, Comparative & Historical Sociology, and Ethnography 

Subfield: Comparative-Historical; Race & Ethnicity; Gender; Inequality; Distribution, Maintenance, and Protection of Power

Subfield: Social Stratification & Mobility; Education; Demography

Subfield: Ethnography, Medical Sociology, Historical Sociology, Sociology of Science, Indigenous Methodology, Trauma

Subfield: Race & ethnicity, international migration, second-generation Asian diaspora, identity and culture

Subfield: Race & Ethnicity, Culture, Sociology of the Arts, Gender & Sexuality, Organizations

Subfield: Medical Sociology, Women's Health, Knowledge, STS, Social Theory, Ethnography

Substantive Topics: Sociology of Celebrity, Intergroup Relations, Relationship Formation, Media Representation

Subfield: Computational Sociology, Social Networks, Social Theory, Critical Theory, Culture, Social Psychology, Race & Ethnicity, Quantitative Methods

Subfield: Urban and Suburban Sociology, Race and Ethnicity, Social Stratification and Inequality, Policing, Surveillance

Subfield: Race, Ethnicity, Class, Gender; Latinx and Black feminist theory; Nationalism; Qualitative methods

Subfield: Political sociology, critical theory, comparative and historical methods, ethnography, power and knowledge production, nationalism and race, settler colonialism, gender and sexuality

Subfield: Incarceration; Race & Ethnicity; Gender & Sexuality; Social Movements;

Subfield: Political Sociology, Economic Sociology, Comparative Historical Sociology, Socialist and Post-Socialist States, Welfare, Labor, Disability

Subfield: Aging and Life Course, Technology, Culture, Ethnography, Mixed Methods, Temporality