Research & Publications

I am an experienced researcher, writer and editor with a passion for collaboration.

I embrace complexity and nuance while working towards clarity. In addition to the scholarly research and writing I completed during my doctoral and postdoctoral projects, I have written, coauthored and edited more broadly accessible magazine features, book chapters, and exhibition wall text. I enjoy working with students and non-academics to help them articulate their ideas vividly and persuasively.

“The Right to Bathe”

Writer

Water is a great healer. Can New York’s public pools and ‘blue spaces’ be engineered for collective hydrotherapy? Published in association with Mindscapes, Wellcome’s international cultural program about mental health.

“Well-Placed”

Series Co-Editor

Well-Placed is a series I am guest editing in Urban Omnibus in 2022 with essays by Asma Neblett, Helena Najm, Jessica Fletcher, and Nawal Muradwij of The Graduate Center, CUNY, as part of Mindscapes, Wellcome’s international cultural program about mental health. The series asks: In the face of exclusion and displacement, how do communities mobilize urban space for mental health and collective wellbeing?

Op-ed in The Nation

Co-Author

Together with Katherine S. Newman, I coauthored “Economic Insecurity is Becoming the New Hallmark of Old Age,” in The Nation, March 29, 2019. This 1,500-word op-ed was based on our research for the book Downhill From Here: Retirement Insecurity in the Age of Inequality.

Downhill From Here

Researcher and Associate Author

I was the researcher and associate author for the book Downhill From Here: Retirement Insecurity in the Age of Inequality by Katherine S. Newman (Metropolitan Books, 2019). For this project, I spearheaded research trips, conducting 260 in-depth ethnographic interviews, secondary research, outlining, and fact-checking. I also authored a chapter, “Keeping the Promise.”

The Center for Brooklyn History (Brooklyn Historical Society)

Oral History Interviewer

I conducted long-form oral history interviews for the Center for Brooklyn History (formerly the Brooklyn Historical Society). I conducted dozens of interviews, from third graders to Brooklyn community leaders. One project, “Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations,” examined the history and experiences of mixed-heritage people and families, cultural hybridity, race, ethnicity, and identity.

“Manufacturing Green: The Reindustrialization of Brooklyn’s Waterfront”

Ph.D. Dissertation

Yale University, Department of American Studies, 2017.

A critical case study on urban sustainability and the future of American manufacturing, using archival documents, spatial analysis, and ethnographic interviews. My advisory committee included faculty members from Yale School of the Environment, Yale School of Architecture, Anthropology and History. Advisor: Kathryn Dudley. Committee Members: Jean-Christophe Agnew, Dolores Hayden, Karen Hébert.