Research

Dissertation Research

Title: Plant-(ation) Landscapes of Louisiana's 2nd Congressional District: An Industrial Political Ecology

Landscape change and environmental justice in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley" — which is mostly contained within the gerrymandered boundaries of the state's 2nd congressional district.

Other research projects have focused on varied topics, including: yerba mate cultivation and consumption in Argentina (MA research), global land-cover change, and electoral politics.

Next major project will expand prior research on Cancer Alley into a comparative and collaborative study engaging with politics, environment, labor, and landscape in Appalachia

Publications

Books

• 2021 — Green Gold: Contested Meanings and Socio-Environmental Change in Argentine Yerba Mate Cultivation, 2021, Springer

Book Chapters

• 2022 — The Geography of the 2020 Election’s Presidential/Congressional Voting Gap,” in B.L. Warf & J. Heppen (eds­.) Geographies of the 2020 Presidential Election, 2022, Routledge

Encyclopedia Entries

• 2024 (in-press) — “Gerrymandering,” in B. Warf (ed.) Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2024, Springer

• 2024 (in-press) — “Environmental Justice,” in B. Warf (ed.) Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2024, Springer

Journal Articles

Three article manuscripts in-progress

• One on evolving relations of yerba mate consumption

• Two on global land-cover change and grassland conversion

Textbooks

• Contributor to Open Educational Record textbook project for Human Geography, Louisiana Library System

  • Chapters on Industry, Political Geography, and Environment & Resources