I’m honored to be recognized with the 2020 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award from the faculty of the Department of Sociology & Anthropology. We celebrated at our end of semester department Zoom party. Thank you!
My research focuses on urban imaginaries and democracy in urban globality. My dissertation explores urban democracy through the International Olympic Committee and the lens of the Olympic Games, using case studies of Los Angeles 1984, and the Boston and Los Angeles bids for 2024 / 2028. I study how small groups of people change their worlds, from the LA elites of 1984 to the anti-Olympic activists in Boston and LA today. This project brings together history, the contestation of institutional legacy discourse, and resistance, to uncover how people shape the future of their city. In other projects, I bring my background with the Tibetan freedom movement and union organizing to the study of solidarity activism in social movements.
MA Sociology, 2016
Northeastern University
MS Environmental Studies, 2014
Antioch University New England
BS Community and International Development, 2008
University of Vermont
I’m honored to be recognized with the 2020 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award from the faculty of the Department of Sociology & Anthropology. We celebrated at our end of semester department Zoom party. Thank you!
I was this month’s graduate instructor spotlight in the newsletter of CATLR, the Northeastern University teaching center. I was interviewed about how I started teaching, my research, and guiding students to look at things in new ways. You can read my whole interview here.
Exploring the discursive framework of ‘event legacy’ in the bid and planning for LA1984 and LA2028, and how it shapes the future of the city.
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