She earned her PhD in Sociology from Princeton University in January 2015. Her research interests include global inequality, culture, economic sociology, urban sociology, race/ethnicity, colonialism and postcolonialism and historical/comparative sociology. Her work appears in Theory and Society, City & Community, Poetics, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, and elsewhere. She is a 2016-2017 Postdoctoral Scholar at the National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan, and a 2006-2007 Fulbright Scholar (Philippines). She has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the American Sociological Association. Current projects include an examination of what she calls “global borderlands”—semi-autonomous, foreign-controlled places of international exchange, and the social construction of sovereignty.