Department of Sociology

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology and a graduate affiliate in the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society at Brown University. My research focuses primarily on the boundary between labor and environmental politics in the United States. My dissertation project explores the historical emergence and development of the regulatory distinction between occupational and environmental health in the American federal bureaucracy and its implications for environmental politics. I have also written and presented research on the dynamics of coalition-building between the labor and environmental movements. Beyond labor and the environment, I am broadly interested in the politics of climate change, as well as sociological theory and historical methods.