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 total energy consumption, the dissertation seeks to reconstruct theories of symbolic power and the state. 

My master's project was on the livelihood consequences and intra-village politics of land expropriation in rural China. My papers, published in Journal of Agrarian Change and The Journal of Peasant Studies, interrogate (1) for whom and under what conditions land expropriation constituted "dispossession" in rural China in the 2010s and (2) how expropriated villagers took advantage of the ambiguous customary rules on land ownership for individual gain. 

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."