Subfield: Gender, Development, Labor and Employment, Politics, Social Movements, Middle East and North Africa

Subfield: Conversation Analysis, Quantitative Methods, Medical Sociology

Subfield: Race and Ethnicity, International Migration, Political Sociology

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

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

Subfield: Sociology of Health and Illness; Organizational Sociology; Network Analysis; Quantitative Methods; Military and Veteran

Subfield: War & Political Violence; Elections; Political Participation; Gender

Subfield: International Migration, Race and Ethnicity, Undocumented Immigrants, Mercosur, Migration in South America

Subfield: Sexualities, Gender, Law & Policy, Criminology

Subfield: Cultural sociology, phenomenological sociology, classic and contemporary theory, ethnography

Subfield: Demography, family, social stratification

Subfield: Immigration, Education, Aging, and Health 

Subfield: Diffusion, Organizational Theory, Sociology of Law (Criminal Law)

Subfield: Race, Class, Gender; Latinx and Black feminist theories; sociology of knowledge; Latinx sociology; culture; reproduction; social movements; qualitative methods; immigration and migration

Subfield: Sociology of Expertise; Economic Sociology; Science and Technology Studies; Organizational Theory; Digital Methods.

Subfield: Computational methods,  science and technology studies, culture

Subfield: Political Sociology, Information (and Data) and Society, Technology, Institutions

Subfield: Conversation Analysis, Race, Gender, Inequality, Ethnomethodology

Subfield: Comparative Historical Sociology, Organizations, Economic Sociology

Dissertation Title: Borders, Boundaries, and Belonging: Refugee Reception Offices and Contested Rights in South African Cities ---- My research looks at the potential role of urban politics, spaces, and infrastructure on the implementation and development of refugee and asylum seeker law and policy. While the administration of legal status and rights for refugees and asylum seekers is often attributed to national policies and international law, urban actors and institutions may also play on important role in influencing the implementation and development of such policies. For example, business associations may draw on municipal by-laws to contest the presence of asylum offices in their vicinity while civil society organizations may draw on courts and networks across cities to hold these centers accountable to national and international law. In order to develop this argument, I have been looking at Refugee Reception Offices (RROs) – sites of mandatory registration and processing to receive and maintain asylum status – in South African cities. Since the early 2000s, these centers have been primarily located within the country’s major cities. However, over the past two decades they have been subject to numerous legal challenges by various actors – either in support of closing down these offices or keeping them open in face of proposed policies to move these offices to the borders. Through an analysis of legal case records, stakeholder interviews, and field observations, I explore the interaction among international, state, and urban actors in shaping refugee and asylum seeker law and policy regarding these offices, and what this process means for the construction of social boundaries and physical borders more broadly within cities and across countries.

Subfield: international migration, political sociology, forced migration studies, cities, South Africa

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

Subfield: International Migration, Political Economy, Religion, Organizations, Comparative Ethnicity, Race, and Nationalism, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia

Subfield: Conversation Analysis, Social Interaction

Subfield: Conversation Analysis, Medical Sociology

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

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

Subfield: Sociology of Health, Immigrant Health, International Migration, International Development, Demography, Emigrant Policies and Politics, State-Diaspora Relations, Qualitative Methods, Quantitative Methods.Field Exams:International Migration (Spring 2017)Social Demography (Summer 2017)

Subfield: Conversation Analysis, Language and Social Interaction, Media, Communication Studies 

Influence and social control in human interaction. Money exchanges, reciprocity, and economic accountability. Spanish conversation.

Subfield: Conversation Analysis, Cultural Sociology, Linguistic Anthropology. 

Subfield: Political Sociology, International Migration, Development, Southeast Asia, Ethnography

Subfield: Family; Demography; Immigration; Race; Social Stratification; Aging; Life Course

Subfield: Gender, Organizations and Work, Social Psychology 

Subfield: Urban Sociology, Policing, Race & Ethnicity

Subfield: Race and Ethnicity; International Migration; Social Stratification; Latina/o Sociology; Inequality

Subfield: Work and Organizations, Culture, Health, Gender, Economic Sociology

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

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

Residential Segregation, Neighborhood population change, Residential mobility through the life course.

Subfield: Demography

Subfield: International Migration, Social Stratification, Transnational (Im)mobility and Inequality, Sociology of Independent Travel and Tourism, Comparative Migration Policy and Law, Social Networks, Mixed Methods Research

Subfield: Race and Ethnicity, Media, Culture

Subfield: Race and Ethnicity, (Im)migration, Latina/o Sociology, Political Sociology, Qualitative Methodology, Caribbean and Central American communities in the U.S.

Subfield: Sociology of Education, International Migration, Race and Ethnicity

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

Subfield: International Migration; Ethnography; Interactional Dynamics; Sociology of Religion; Race & Ethnicity; Chinese American Community; East Asia; Medical Sociology.

I am a sociologist of media and communication. My dissertation deals with the contradictions of audience participation, investigating both controlled 'participation from above' and spontaneous 'participation from below' with respect to video games, fan culture, and social media. I am currently developing a project that explores the relationship between the sociohistorical construction of time and the changing rhythms of prevailing media forms. Courses I have taught have included classical and contemporary sociological theory, self and society, critical theory, and urban sociology.

Subfield: Theory, Media, Culture