My doctoral dissertation studied the effects of policing and police violence on residents of South Los Angeles and São Paulo's periphery. I examined how policing affects residents' racial, spatial and civic identities.
I am interested in studying the ways policing and police violence affect nonwhite residents of low-income communities in the US and elsewhere.
I am also interested in examining the reasons behind the import of U.S. policing strategies in Latin America. I am currently researching the adoption of "tough-on-crime" policies in Uruguay in the last decade.
My work has been published in the Journal of Social Justice, International Studies Perspective, International Studies Review.