Research

Dissertation

Gerrymandering Louisiana's Electoral & Industrial Landscapes: A Political Ecology of Cancer Alley

Industry, environment, labor, and electoral politics in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley"—which is mostly contained within the gerrymandered boundaries of the state's 2nd congressional district.

Other research projects have focused on varied topics, including: yerba mate cultivation and consumption in Argentina (MA research), global land-cover change, and electoral politics.

Current projects engage with similar themes from my dissertation, applied to Appalachia—as well as on the 2024 Nebraska U.S. Senate election

Publications

Books

• 2021 — Green Gold: Contested Meanings and Socio-Environmental Change in Argentine Yerba Mate Cultivation, 2021, Springer

Book Chapters

• 2026 (in-press) — "Louisiana Mid-Decade Redistricting," in the Atlas of the 2024 Elections

• 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

Encyclopedia Entries

• 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

Journal Articles

Article manuscript in-progress:

• Louisiana redistricting case

Textbooks

• Contributor to Open Educational Record textbook project for Human Geography, Louisiana Library System

  • Chapters on Industry, Political Geography, and Environment & Resources

Book Reviews

• 2026 (forthcoming) — Abundance by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson (2025) in the Journal of Urban Affairs

• 2025 — Yerba Mate: The Drink That Shaped a Nation by Julia Sarreal (2023) in the Journal of Latin American Geography