Biography
B.A. in History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2021
M.A. in History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2023
M.A. in History, University of California, Irvine, 2025
Advisor: Dr. Chelsea Schields
Research interests: United States history, environmental history, history of oil, energy history
My research examines the Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood of New Orleans and its synchronous development with the city’s oil industry. I analyze how the creation and expansion of the oil industry created, reproduced, and reshaped racialized and gendered norms, both socially and economically, outside of the traditional “boom town” geography.