Bio

I am a PhD candidate in sociology at Boston College. My dissertation traces China's energy transition policies from 2003 to 2022. Through examining how both central and subnational states dealt with "overcapacity" crises in the solar industry and imposed controls on energy consumption, the dissertation seeks to advance our understanding of state-capital relations in decarbonization and in China. 

My master's project interrogated theories of dispossession through studying the intra-village politics, livelihood impacts, and well-being outcomes of land expropriation in rural China. My papers, published in The Journal of Peasant Studies, Journal of Agrarian Change, and Land Use Policy explain (1) how expropriated villagers took advantage of the ambiguous customary rules on land ownership for individual gain and (2) for whom and under what conditions land expropriation constituted "dispossession" in rural China in the 2010s. 

In addition to my own research, I have been working as a research assistant analyzing survey data on global four-day workweek trials. In college, I worked as a producer on the participatory video project, "Visualizing the voices of migrant women workers."