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My research agenda examines labor, identity, and belonging in the context of neoliberal globalization. Of particular interest are the ways globalization impacts, and is contested by, less powerful groups whose experiences and opportunities are shaped by gender, race, class, and/or illegality (effects of ‘real’ or perceived legal status). My Mexico-based research examined neoliberal restructuring and struggles over gender, indigeneity and political authority in Michoacán. More recently I turned to the economics and politics of Latinx immigration in the United States. This line of inquiry includes research exploring struggles over farmworker housing in Woodburn, Oregon as well as NSF-funded research on gentrification, immigrant labor regimes and geographies of social reproduction in the rural U.S. I am committed to fine-grained, historically situated qualitative analysis that links processes of everyday life and ‘local’ change with global transformations and power dynamics.

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Courses
  • CMP
    Critical Methodological Practice

  • GRM
    Geographical Research Methods

  • PCGG
    Political & Cultural Geography of Globalization

  • GID
    Geography of International Development

  • RD
    Research Design

Grants
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    Doctoral Dissertation Research: Understanding Resettlement of Communities

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2021

    $17.5K
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    Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2019

    $33.5K
Books
  • A companion to feminist geography

    2007

  • Introduction

    2007

Publications (36)
Recent
  • Between aggrieved whiteness and class precarity: a feminist politics of interpretation

    2021

  • Geographies of global lifestyle migration: Towards an anticolonial approach

    2021

  • On the Subject of Performativity: Judith Butler’s influence in geography

    2020

  • Refugee resettlement, place, and the politics of Islamophobia

    2020

  • Illegality

    2019

  • Undocumented Fears: Immigration and the Politics of Divide and Conquer in Hazleton, Pennsylvania by Jamie Longazel

    2018

  • Farm labor, immigration, and race

    2017

  • Soccer and the mundane politics of belonging: Latino immigrants, recreation, and spaces of exclusion in the rural US South

    2016

  • Soccer and the mundane politics of belonging

    2016

  • Producing “Quality of Life” in the “Nuevo South”: The Spatial Dynamics of Latinos’ Social Reproduction in Southern Amenity Destinations

    2016

  • Latino immigrants and rural gentrification: Race,“illegality,” and precarious labor regimes in the United States

    2015

  • Latino Immigrants and Rural Gentrification: Race, “Illegality,” and Precarious Labor Regimes in the United States

    2015

  • Landscapes of luxury in the rural US depend on the recruitment of low-wage and often undocumented Latino workers

    2015

  • Linked migration and labor market flexibility in the rural amenity destinations in the United States

    2014

  • 3 Engaging Butler

    2014

  • Engaging Butler--subjects, cernment, and ongoing limits of performativity

    2014

  • Malthus, el género y la demarcación de los cuerpos' peligrosos' en la reforma del sistema de asistencia social de EE. UU. en 1996

    2012

  • Malthus, gender and the demarcation of ‘dangerous’ bodies in 1996 US welfare reform

    2012

  • The global rural: Gentrification and linked migration in the rural USA

    2011

  • Rural gentrification and linked migration in the United States

    2010

  • Geographical perspectives on development studies

    2010

  • Linking baby boomer and hispanic migration streams into rural America - A multi-scaled approach

    2009

  • Linking baby boomer and Hispanic migration streams into rural America–a multi‐scaled approach

    2009

  • A companion to feminist geography

    2008

  • Racialized landscapes: Whiteness and the struggle over farmworker housing in Woodburn, Oregon

    2008

  • Latino immigrants and the renegotiation of place and belonging in small town America

    2008

  • Farmworker housing and spaces of belonging in Woodburn, Oregon

    2007

  • FARMWORKER HOUSING AND SPACES OF BELONGING IN WOODBURN, OREGON*

    2007

  • Geographies of state power, protest, and women's political identity formation in Michoacán, Mexico

    2006

  • " Artesanía", mobility and the crafting of indigenous identities among Purhépechan women in Mexico

    2006

  • Introduction: The poetics of bodies, spaces, place, and politics

    2005

  • Topographies of citizenship: Purhépechan Mexican women claiming political subjectives

    2004

  • Decentering the movement: Collective action, place, and the 'sedimentation' of radical political discourses

    2003

  • Remaking gender and citizenship in a Mexican indigenous community

    2000

  • Bodies (and spaces) do matter: The limits of performativiy

    1999

  • Neoliberalism as contested ideological terrain: state practices and peasant agencies in Michoacan, Mexico

    1996

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