I am a PhD candidate in Sociology and Social Policy at Princeton University, with a certificate in Demography, and I plan to defend my dissertation in May, 2024.

My research focuses on how power and profit shape contemporary urban life, bringing approaches from the sociology of elites, economic sociology, and political economy to bear on key urban sociological topics. Specifically, I focus on urban landowners, speculators, and developers, asking “who owns our cities, and how do they shape outcomes like housing precarity, the geography of crime, and neighborhood change?” In doing so, I bring a relational perspective to urban sociology, showing how the positions of advantaged groups are intimately related to those of the disadvantaged.