Welcome! I am an incoming UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Diego, and a current Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. My research investigates how legal status and racialization organize the terms of social life.

My recent work has appeared in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and De Gruyter Handbook of Political Control. My research has also been recognized through competitive grants, fellowships, and awards from the American Sociological Association, University of California, Russell Sage Foundation, and Ford Foundation.

In my dissertation, The Remnant Logics of Immigrant Illegality, I argue that legalization reconfigures—rather than resolves—illegality’s exclusionary logics. My dissertation is advised by Dr. Irene Vega and guided by a committee including Dr. Rocio Rosales and Dr. Julia Lerch.

Looking ahead, my research will continue to interrogate how immigrant illegality and racialization intersect—within the United States and across borders—to produce unique and stratified forms of exclusion.