I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sociology at Indiana University-Bloomington. My dissertation explores the rights-seeking behavior of—and the provision of legal assistance for—the victims of the distributive injustices aggravated by climate change in the Brazilian Amazon. In particular, my project uses multi-sited, mixed-methods fieldwork to assess how individuals who endure climate hazards, as well as the lawyers who should serve them, recognize this issue as a matter of rights and responsibilities when mitigating and adaptive measures to deal with such hazards fail. I also study law, lawyers, and globalization in light of how the transformations of the corporate legal sector intertwine with changes in international trade and foreign investment relations. My research, in sum, centers around how legal and non-legal actors produce, reproduce, and transform the institutional and organizational environments in which they are embedded.CV
Research and Teaching Interests: Law and Society, Political Sociology, Organizational Theory, Governance, Environmental Sociology, Social Movements
Dissertation Title: Navigating Turbulent Waters: Flooding, Housing, and Accessing Justice in Brazil’s Urban Amazon
Dissertation Committee: Ethan Michelson (co-chair), Jayanth K. Krishnan (co-chair), Arthur S. Alderson, Eduardo S. Brondizio, Patricia A. McManus
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