Biography
I am joining the faculty at LSU after earning my PhD in Sociology at UC Santa Barbara
with a designated emphasis in Black Studies. I also have a master’s in Gender/Cultural
Studies from Simmons College.
My interdisciplinary research engages with race and ethnicity, gender, and ethnographic
methods. Grounded in fieldwork with Haitian women in Boston, Montreal, and Paris,
my primary research project is a multi-sited ethnography examining the role that paid
labor plays in negotiating cultural citizenship and national belonging for Haitian
women in diaspora
In addition to my research on gender, labor, and migration, I have conducted a study
on Black Lives Matter and social media, investigating the ways in which youth of color
use platforms such as Twitter to shape public discourse in the nation. My next research
project will be an ethnography of youth of color in urban spaces to examine the ways
in which they experience inclusion and exclusion within the nation and within transnational
communities.
My work appears in journals such as the Annual Review of Sociology, Humanity & Society, and Sociology Compass.
Education
PhD: University of California, Santa Barbara (2019)
Curricullum Vitae
Courses Recently Taught at LSU
(Syllabi are for illustrative purposes & subject to change)
- SOCL 2511: Race Relations