Dissertation
My research examines the spatial dimensions and landscape expressions of environmental, issues, labor, populism, inequality, and electoral politics.
My current projects examine gerrymandering, labor, industry, and pollution in Louisiana's Cancer Alley, gerrymandering & map trust, Nebraska senatorial elections, and deaths of despair in West Virginia.
Publications
BOOKS PUBLISHED
2021 Green Gold: Contested Meanings and Socio-Environmental Change
in Argentine Yerba Mate Cultivation, 2021, Springer Nature
JOURNAL ARTICLES
*indicates undergraduate student
In-preparation “They Get Rich, We Get Sick:” Blue/Green Coalition-Building in Cancer Alley
In-preparation Gerrymandering & Map Trust (with Tim Prestby & Aiden Seitzer*)
In-preparation Clustered in the Coalfields: Deaths of Despair in West Virginia
Across Four Waves of the Opioid Crisis (with James McQuilkin*)
In-preparation Gerrymandering Louisiana’s Electoral & Industrial Landscapes Amidst the Redistricting Wars
BOOK CHAPTERS PUBLISHED
2022 "The Geography of the 2020 Election’s Presidential/Congressional Voting Gap,”
in B.L. Warf & J. Heppen (eds.) Geographies of the 2020 Presidential Election, 2022, Routledge
BOOKS REVIEWED
2026 Abundance, E. Klein & D. Thompson, in Journal of Urban Affairs, published online
2025 Yerba Mate: The Drink That Shaped a Nation, J.J.S.. Sarreal, 2023
in Journal of Latin American Geography, Vol. 24, No. 2
OTHER PUBLISHED WORKS
2026 “Technology, AI, and Regulation: What Americans Think,” white paper, (with Zachary Bortolot & Laura Lambert)
2026 “Louisiana Mid-Decade Redistricting,” in Weichelt et al. (ed.) Atlas of the 2024 Election, 2026, Routledge
2024 “Gerrymandering,” in B. Warf (ed.) Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2024, Springer
2024 “Environmental Justice,” in B. Warf (ed.) Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2024, Springer