I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Louisiana State University.
My research investigates social inequalities and environmental change, especially as it relates to disasters, place making, health, immigration, race, and social capital. My most recent work is in extreme event attribution particularly analyzing how climate change increased the severity of extreme weather events. In my work, I am a recipient of a NSF CAREER grant, a NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Early-Career Innovators award, was a Fellow in the NSF Enabling Program for the Next Generation of Hazards and Disasters Researcher, and was a recipient for Early-Career Research Fellowship from the Gulf Research Program. I serve presently as a Committee Member for the National Academies' study on Attribution of Extreme Weather and Climate Events and Their Impacts
My research investigates social inequalities and environmental change, especially as it relates to disasters, place making, health, immigration, race, and social capital. My most recent work is in extreme event attribution particularly analyzing how climate change increased the severity of extreme weather events. In my work, I am a recipient of a NSF CAREER grant, a NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Early-Career Innovators award, was a Fellow in the NSF Enabling Program for the Next Generation of Hazards and Disasters Researcher, and was a recipient for Early-Career Research Fellowship from the Gulf Research Program. I serve presently as a Committee Member for the National Academies' study on Attribution of Extreme Weather and Climate Events and Their Impacts
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This research is in three primary areas. It has been covered in dozens of media outlets (such the New York Times and the Washington Post), and I have appeared on The Weather Channel.
First, I research disaster resilience and vulnerability, particularly how environmental changes link to inequalities in disaster impacts. This research is funded by the Early-Career Innovators Program at the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, and an Early-Career Research Fellowship through the Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. I was also a Fellow in the NSF's Human, Disasters, and Built Environment (HDBE) Enabling the Next Generation of Hazards and Disasters Researchers program. My newest work on this topic analyzes climate change attribution of flooding using an environmental justice lens. Second, my co-authored book, titled Market Cities, People Cities (NYU Press, 2018), assesses vast variability in urban trajectories in Copenhagen and Houston, and what the implications are for our urban future. Third, I research health risks from industrial air pollution in the United States by examining the extent of disparities across metropolitan areas, and how those disparities have emerged. |
