ABOUT ME

I am a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. My research is situated in political and historical sociologies, particularly the sociologies of colonialism and violence. I examine the depredation wrought by colonial settlement and the institutions erected in its wake. I am interested in population management, mobility regimes, coerced territorial redistribution, dispossession, land tenure, and property relations in my quest to understand how forms of social stratification become institutionalized on the colonial frontier and endure. My current project examines the ways relations between settlers and colonial states fluctuate between alliance, reinforcement, and discordance. I am interested in understanding particularly how the hybrid sovereignties that emerge in the fracturing of the state’s monopoly on legitimated violence bear on frontier offensives.