About Me

I am a PhD candidate in the Geography Graduate Group at UC Davis and Part-Time Faculty at CSU Northridge. I am pursuing a career in higher education and academic Geography, particularly focused on Cultural Geography and the GeoHumanities.

With my background in Sociology and other social sciences, I welcome the opportunity to teach or work with any geography or global history course, introductory cultural studies, environmental studies, international relations, american studies, or regional studies course.

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EDUCATION

RESEARCH INTERESTS

GeoHumanities

landscape representation
narrative & counter-narrative
place-based literature

Geographic Education

graduate student workers
supplemental instruction
landscape & literature as a teaching tool

Urban Agriculture

historical development
current usage and policy
Sacramento & West Sacramento, CA

Cultural & Social Geography

media representation
hazards perception
guest-worker system in Germany
California and Western U.S.

2012 - 2019 (expected)

University of California, Davis

PhD, Geography

Proposed Dissertation: Narratives of California's Heartland: A Geographic Perspective on the Fictional Literature of the Central Valley

2019 - 2011

California State University, Long Beach

M.A., Geography

Thesis: Evolving California Fiction: Literary Representations of Landscapes and Emotional Geographic Constructs

2004 - 2008

University of California, Davis

B.A. Sociology, emphasis in Comparative Studies and World Development