About
I am a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Geography at the University of Oregon. My research focuses on cities, and I am interested in how planning and policy are implicated in the spatial change of both urban and suburban space. My current work explores the unevenness of wealth and inequality across the urban and suburban, asking how each is perpetuated and maintained as the city changes. I am concerned with how urban and suburban spaces are planned in favor of the wealthy, with the goal of my work to advocate for more inclusive urban policy.
My doctoral research examined how the postwar divides between urban and suburban space have shifted in recent years. I specifically focused on outcomes of concentrated poverty and segregated wealth, asking how each has resorted and resegregated, and using this geographical inequality to highlight how the relationship between urban and suburban spaces has blurred.
I have held research positions both in the US and in Europe. I recently worked within the Heseltine Institute at the University of Liverpool, and I was part of the Gould Center’s work measuring the quality of voter roll data across the US during my doctoral studies. Prior to this, I held a research position in the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development. I completed my Ph.D. in Geography at Pennsylvania State University earlier this year, while I earned my Master’s Degree in Town and Regional Planning.
