I am a doctoral candidate in sociology at the Pennsylvania State University. I completed my BA in sociology in 2004 and my MA in sociology and social statistics in 2005, both at McGill University.
I am a political sociologist and my substantive research and teaching interests focus on social movements/collective behavior, protest policing, state repression, social control, sociology of punishment, and complex organizations. I am also interested in applied statistics, particularly Bayesian methods, semiparametric analysis, and machine learning.
My dissertation examines the policing of protest in 20 American municipalities between 1996 and 2006. I am particularly interested in the structural underpinning of variability in protest policing, which I link to meso-level patterns in crime control, social control, and social stratification.