Research

My broader research agenda centers around urban and environmental politics in Latin America, with a focus on the nature and outcomes of urban informality and citizen-state interaction. My ongoing dissertation project explores how environmental and housing responses to climate risks are brokered between urban governments, civil society organizations, and residents of informal settlements in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Dissertation Project

On Uneven Ground: The Contested Politics of Environmental Risk, Rights, and Removal

Working Papers

Is Patriotism Inclusive? National Identity and Environmentalism in Bolivia, with Christopher Carter (Under Review)

Just Economic Transition and Cities: The Challenge of Climate Justice in Municipal Action. In “Public Policies and Local Action: Cities,” with Vanessa Nadalin, Jean Peres, and Raphael Brito Faustino (In Portuguese). (Under Review)

Mapping Risk, Claiming Rights: Knowledge, Contestation, and the Making of Local Climate Action

Secondhand Skepticism: Partisanship and the Political Activation of Science Opinion, with Paul Freedman

Citizen-State Encounters and Patterns of Participation in Urban Peripheries: Evidence from Rio de Janeiro, with Winston Ardoin

Work in Progress

Citizen Journalism in the Digital Age: Trust, Action, and Local Problem-Solving, with Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner, Tanu Kumar, and Bhumi Purohit