I am an Assistant Professor of Criminology in the Sociology and Anthropology Department at St. John’s University. I am also a founding member of the Jail Justice Initiative. 

My areas of specialization include time and racialized waiting, jails and critical criminology, race and ethnicity, women, gender, and sexuality studies, social movements, and qualitative methods. I seek to understand how time is used to create and entrench social inequalities, particularly relating to gender, race, and sexuality. I historically situate my work within a theoretical and deep understanding of the transformation of time itself with the rise, evolution, and afterlives of slavery, colonization, and racial capitalism. With this as the backdrop, I use innovative qualitative and multi-methods to understand how gendered and racialized bodies experience the temporal rupture of imprisonment in contemporary carceral settings. 

I received my PhD from Binghamton University and previously served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Race and Ethnicity at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America. 

My CV can be found here.