About Me

I am a sociologist of race and ethnicity with a focus on race and racism in transnational contexts. My work addresses migration, Blackness and anti-Blackness, and racial stratification in the U.S. and Latin America. My current research touches on transnational constructions of Blackness and the ways in which Afro-Latinxs navigate competing definitions of Black identity in the U.S. My work has been supported by the Russell Sage Foundation and the Social Science Research Council. I am also an alumna of the Mark Claster Mamolen Dissertation Workshop at the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard University.

Currently, I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University. I earned my PhD and MA in Sociology from Duke University, and my BA in Sociology and Africana Studies from Bowdoin College, where I was an MMUF fellow ‘16 and an IRT fellow.

Education

PhD, Sociology, Duke University, 2024

MA, Sociology, Duke University, 2021

BA, Sociology & Africana Studies, Bowdoin College, 2017