My Research
My research answers urgent questions of food availability in the Anthropocene. The process of globalization invigorates my curiosity, especially as it pertains to uneven development and vulnerable groups of people. I can trace this passion for equality to my time at Tulane, studying environmental racism just before Hurricane Katrina.
I study questions such as “how do food producers and consumers of different identities respond to global change, and how can policy better serve vulnerable populations in the context of climate change?”
Current Research
My research stems from a desire to understand how global change influences socio-ecological systems.
Stateside, I investigate sustainable farming in the Hudson Valley, engaging with questions of food security, race, and class. Internationally, I analyze the sustainability of agriculture. I also investigate how military operations include issues of gender and climate change and how indigenous burning practices differ from US Forest Service techniques.
Past Research
My historical work examines agrarian change in the Vietnamese Mekong River Delta at the individual, household, and deltaic scales. I used rigorous mixed methods to produce qualitative, quantitative, and spatial analyses that interlace social and biophysical data.