Research

Dissertation Research

Title: Gerrymandering Louisiana's Electoral & Industrial Landscapes: A Political Ecology of Cancer Alley

Industry, environment, labor, and electoral politics 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 electoral 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 — “Gerrymandering,” in B. Warf (ed.) Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2024, Springer

• 2024 — “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