I am an Energy-Environment Geographer with research experience at the intersection of political ecology, political economy of development, and postcolonial studies.

My specific areas of interest include energy access in off-grid locations; energy transitions; postcolonial geographies and uneven development; protected areas governance; social justice and sustainability in resource access. At the heart of my work is a commitment to showing how peripheralization and social injustice is produced, reproduced, and reinforced by different factors across radically distinct spatial scales. To examine these connections, I engage closely with power theories including biopower and governmentality, inspired by French philosopher Michel Foucault, and subaltern theory, inspired by Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. Along these lines, I am generally interested in how power asymmetries, path dependencies, socio-spatial justice and equity issues are navigated through subaltern mobilizations, negotiations, participation, and resistance.

Faculty Advisor: Veronica Jacome