Biography
My research investigates social inequalities and environmental change, especially
as it relates to disasters, place making, health, immigration, race, and social capital.
This research is in three primary areas. It has been covered in media outlets such
the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Houston Chronicle, and I have appeared
on the Weather Channel. It has attracted grant funding and recognition through an
NSF CAREER grant, as a Fellow in the Early-Career Innovators Program at the NSF National
Center for Atmospheric Research, through NSF's Human, Disasters, and Built Environment
(HDBE) Enabling the Next Generation of Hazards and Disasters Researchers program,
and with an Early-Career Research Fellowship through the Gulf Research Program of
the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
First, I research disaster vulnerability particularly how environmental changes like
climate change link to inequalities in disaster impacts. My latest work on this topic
analyzes climate change attribution of disaster impacts using an environmental justice
lens.
Second, my co-authored book, titled Market Cities, People Cities (NYU Press, 2018),
assesses vast variability in urban trajectories in Copenhagen and Houston, and what
the implications are for our urban future.
Third, I research health risks from industrial air pollution in the United States
by examining the extent of disparities across metropolitan areas, and how those disparities
have emerged.
Education
Rice University, PhD (2017)
Curriculum Vitae
Courses Recently Taught at LSU
(Syllabi are for illustrative purposes & subject to change)
o SOCL3101: Sociological Theory
o SOCL4091: Topics in Sociology: Environmental Sociology
o SOCL7131: Contemporary Sociological Theory
o SOCL7213: Mixed Methodologies
o SOCL7591: Environmental Sociology