About

I’m an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law & Society at Kenyon College. I study how immigration law creates both belonging and punishment, focusing on courts, detention centers, and surveillance technologies.

My work has appeared in Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences (PNAS), Law & Social Inquiry, PLOS One, Migration Policy Institute, Border Criminologies, Albany Law Review, MinnPost, and the Companion to Urban and Regional Studies. To learn more about my research, click here.

I received my PhD in Sociology at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. My dissertation focused on courts in the Upper Midwest, focusing on how they manage and adjudicate their growing backlog of cases. I am also a recent demography trainee at the Minnesota Population Center. For an up-to-date CV, please see the download link in the menu.

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