Research
Recent Publications
The World of the Bus: A Lens for "Knowing" Los Angeles
In Margaret Crawford and Noam Shoked (eds.) No Cruising: Mobile Identities and Urban Life in Los Angeles. Berkeley: Global Urban Humanities Initiative, 2014. 29-42.
Back to the Future? Transit Technology and Social Stigma in Los Angeles
In Margaret Crawford and Noam Shoked (eds.) No Cruising: Mobile Identities and Urban Life in Los Angeles. Berkeley: Global Urban Humanities Initiative, 2014. 49-60.
Presentations
“From Swap Meet to Main Street: Multiethnic Commercial Landscapes in Southern California at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century” Dumbarton Oaks, December 14, 2020.
“From Swap Meet to Mall: Latinizing Southern California’s Multi-Ethnic Marketplaces,” Vernacular Architecture Forum, June 1, 2019, Philadelphia.
“The Korean Swap Meet Boom and the Construction of a Non-White Regional Consciousness,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. March 23, 2019, Denver.
“Straight Outta LA: Adaptation and Innovation in Los Angeles’s Indoor Market Halls,” Society for American City and Regional Planning History. October 26-29, 2017, Cleveland.
“Visible But Unseen: Architectures of Emergent Citizenship in Los Angeles’s Indoor Swap Meets” Vernacular Architecture Forum. May 31 - June 3, 2017, Salt Lake City.
“Flexible Space and Cross-Cultural Encounter in Southern California’s Indoor Swap Meets,” Race, Ethnicity and Place VIII. September 21-23, 2016, Kent State University.
“The Southern California Swap Meet: Hybridity and Mimicry in Loose Urban Space,” American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. March 29-April 2, 2016, San Francisco.
“Inverting the Status Quo: Rethinking Bus Transportation in Los Angeles.” Anxieties of Interdisciplinarity: Projects in the Urban Humanities. June 11, 2014, UCLA.
Research Positions
Urban Land Use Analyst, Assistant to Christopher Leinberger at the Brookings Institution (2011-2012)
Graduate Student Researcher, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, UC Berkeley (2013)
Research Assistant, George Washington University and the U.S. Green Building Council (2011)
Research Assistant, Committee of 100 on the Federal City (2009-2010)
Awards and Fellowships
Bridge Connect Summer Fellowship, UC Berkeley (2021)
Bridge Connect Summer Fellowship, UC Berkeley (2020)
Berkeley Connect Fellowship in Architecture, UC Berkeley (2018-2019)
Chancellor’s Public Fellowship, American Cultures Engaged Scholarship Program, UC Berkeley (2017)
Simpson Presenters Fellowship, Vernacular Architecture Forum (2017)
Graduate Division Conference Travel Grant, UC Berkeley (2016)
Graduate Division Summer Research Grant, UC Berkeley (2015)
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Oaxaca, Mexico), UC Berkeley (2013)
Graduate Division Summer Research Grant, UC Berkeley (2013)
Spiro Kostof Fellowship in Architectural History, UC Berkeley (2012-2017)
Campbell Fellowship, Department of Geography, George Washington University (2009-2011)