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, Social Demography

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 relation between cultural products and identity formation processes. I am particularly interested on how identity performances deployed through music, for example, can reproduce and subvert hegemonic notions of race, gender, and nation. Furthermore, I want to explore how Puerto Rico's cultural politics during its current political and economical crisis affect said deployments.

Subfield: Sociology of Culture, Race and Ethnicity, Urban Sociology

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, 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, Ethnomethodology, childhood socialization, early childhood education, classroom interaction

Subfield: Urban Sociology, 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: 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: Race and Ethnicity, Media, Culture

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

Subfield: Political sociology, critical theory, ethnography, power and knowledge production, nationalism and race, settler colonialism and decolonization, 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