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Associate Professor of Geography, Development & Environment, University of Arizona

As a cultural geographer, I conduct research on everyday forms of policing, crime, and neighborhood change (gentrification, redevelopment, ethnic in-migration, etc.) and am the author of Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA's Graffiti Subculture published by University of Chicago Press in 2019.

I am associate professor in the School of Geography, Development & Environment and the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory at the University of Arizona. I live in Tucson, Arizona and Los Angeles, California.

My work on gangs, graffiti, policing, and gentrification has appeared in scholarly monographs as well as in peer-reviewed journals including: Critical Criminology, Progress in Human Geography, Environment and Planning (Society and Space), Geographical Review, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Radical History Review, and Cultural Geographies.

Experience

  • 2021–present
    Associate professor, University of Arizona
  • 2017–2021
    Assistant Professor , University of Arizona

Education

  • 2017 
    Brown University, Post Doctoral Fellow
  • 2012 
    University of Minnesota, Ph.D Geography
  • 2006 
    UCLA, MA Urban Planning
  • 2001 
    UC Santa Cruz, BA Literature

Publications

  • 2019
    Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA's Graffiti Subculture, University of Chicago Press