Research
I am a qualitative researcher of race and ethnicity. My research projects focus on transnational constructions of race, and specifically Blackness, between the U.S. and Latin America; Latinx racism and homogenizing narratives of panethnicity within the Latinx community in the U.S.; the ways in which Afro-Latinxs navigate both constructions of Blackness and Latinidad in the U.S.; the global reach of #BlackLivesMatter in 2020; and the role of white allies in social justice movements after the 2016 election.
Research Interests:
Race and Ethnicity
Transnational Blackness
Race in Latin America
Latinxs and race in the U.S.
Racial discourse on social media
Publications and Public Writing
The Social Aftershocks of a Migration Crisis: Racial Threat and Racial Drift in the Dominican Republic (2023)
Connectivity, contestation, and cultural production: an analysis of Dominican online identity formation (2022)
Identities Blog - “Connectivity and Contestation”
4 things the Biden administration should pay attention to with the border crisis
Deportados: En Guatemala solo hay carencias, por eso quieren volver
Hear Me Talk About My Work
The Theological Foundations of Theological Foundations of Civil Disobedience and Racial Awareness in the Sanctuary Movement
In this presentation, my colleague Anna Holleman and I present our project on race in the third wave of the U.S. sanctuary movement on February 26, 2022 at the The Boisi Center's 2nd Annual Virtual Graduate Conference on “Religious Activism, Political Change; Political Activism, Religious Change.” We also presented this work at the 2022 meeting of the American Sociological Association in Los Angeles, CA.
Beyond the Reading Room: Archives in the World with Sociologist Pamela Zabala '17
In this presentation, I highlight the role of archival research in her 2017 honors project on incidents of racial bias at Bowdoin College. I discuss how access to archival materials allowed her to contextualize the incidents at the center of her project within the broader historical context of race and racism at Bowdoin. I also discuss some of her current graduate research on race and discuss the pros and cons of using archives in sociological research. My research materials are preserved and available at the George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections and Archive at Bowdoin. Read more here.