My dissertation research concerns how questions of environmental justice are operationalized in environmental science. I research efforts to monitor and mitigate environmental health disparities in the Los Angeles basin, particularly regarding air pollution exposure and effects. Using ethnographic methods, I study how various stakeholders use categories of race, location, and toxic exposure to articulate scientific and legal concepts of justice and inequality. I am interested in how public health science reworks relationships among race, space, the body, and the environment across California landscapes of environmental degradation, capitalist expansion, and racial violence.

More generally, my research and teaching interests include environmental and medical anthropology, science & technology studies (STS), and collaborative ethnographic methods.