I am a PhD candidate in the joint Sociology/Community and Environmental Sociology graduate program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I received an MS in Sociology from UW-Madison and a BS in Development Sociology and Natural Resource Management from Cornell University. My work has been published in Development and Change, Agriculture and Human Values, and the Journal of Peasant Studies.

Research and teaching interests: environmental sociology, agro-food systems, political economy of development, global/transnational sociology