My research interests include political-economy, political sociology, race and class inequality, sociological theory and materialist critical theory, authoritarianism, social mobilization and movements, migration, and contemporary Latin America. 

I am currently at work on my first monograph, The Crisis of Neoliberalism and Far-right Politics in Southern California. Drawing upon 60 semi-structured interviews, 3 years of fieldwork, and original survey data, the project investigates the rise of far-right political movements among White and Mexican American communities in Southern California. Grounded in a historical materialist and Gramscian theoretical framework, I analyze such politics in relation to local histories of settler colonialism, capital accumulation, and racial authoritarianism, and the increasingly fragmented and volatile social and class relations emerging from the crisis of neoliberalism. Through critical theoretical and comparative analysis the study reveals distinct ways in which far-right politics is articulated and legitimated across race and class, and contributes to a growing body of critical scholarship that seeks not only to explain the modern far-right, but to build the theoretical and empirical groundwork for resisting it.

My next project, A Time of Monsters: Capital, Uneven and Combined Development, and Far-Right Politics in the Americas, expands my study of the nature and forces contributing to the rise of the far-right by examining this phenomenon within Latin America. Over the past decade, far-right, populist political movements have seen a resurgence throughout the region, posing significant threats to liberal democratic institutions, the environment, and historically marginalized communities, including women, Indigenous communities, Afro Latinxs, LGBTQ+ people, environmental activists, and working-class people more generally. Building upon my research of the US far-right, I am developing a new comparative research project examining this phenomenon in Latin America, focusing on Argentina, Brazil, México, and Colombia.

My previously published research focused on social movement mobilization, social justice, and policing of Latinx communities in Southern California.