Spring 2022 Office Hours

Virtually, by appointment only

2021-22 Teaching Assignment

Instructor for SOCIOL 325-201: Social Change

Education

MS, Sociology, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
BA, Communication, Universidad Iberoamericana

Areas of Interest

Cultural Sociology; Urban Sociology; Sociology of Literature; Literary Geography; Ethnography; Social Stratification; Consumers & Consumption; Digital Humanities

Selected Presentations

2020. “Seeing Milwaukee through the Lens of Poetry: A Literary Ethnography.” Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Alternative Virtual Engagement Event

2019. “Color-based Economic Inequality in Mexico. "Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, New York City, NY

2019. “The Effects of Culture and Economic Prosperity on Mexicans’ Attitudes towards Central and South American Migration. "Annual Meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York City, NY

2019. “Art, Bohemia, and Economic Growth: An Analysis of the Post-Great Recession Midwestern Economic Recovery.” Annual Meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association, Oakland, CA.

2019. “The City as a Poetic Object: Analyzing Five Decades of Poetic Representation of Urban Space in a Midwestern City.” Annual Meetings of the Chicago Ethnography Conference, Chicago, IL.

2017. “Ethnicity and Poetry: A Systems Theory Approach to Contemporary African American