Research
Research Interests
My research interests are informed by years of direct practice with survivors of violence. My dissertation explores how civil war violence shapes post-war social dynamics broadly and interactions between host communities and immigrants in particular. I study social dynamics in post-war Peru, which currently hosts over one million Venezuelan immigrants and refugees.
My previous research focuses on refugee resettlement and organizational theory in the United States and Canada. This work includes a co-authored study of resettlement under the Trump Administration with research partner, Dr. Jessica Darrow. Our preliminary findings are published in a 2020 article entitled; Chaos and Confusion: Impacts of the Trump Administration Executive Orders on the US Refugee Resettlement System.
I am grateful to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the University of Chicago Community Engagement Grant for their generous support of my research projects.