I am an MA/PhD student in the Department of History at UC Santa Barbara whose research sits at the intersection of twentieth-century U.S. urban history, political culture, visual and material culture, and the histories of gender and sexuality. I am interested in how modern American life has been imagined and organized through architecture, planning, design, and policy, and in how those projects have shaped exclusion, citizenship, belonging, and everyday experience.

With training in urban studies, human geography, and political science, I approach urban history as both a material and cultural project: one produced through plans, renderings, bureaucracies, built environments, and social norms. I am especially drawn to the archives of planning, design, and speculative or unbuilt schemes as sites for understanding how competing visions of progress and the future have structured public life. More broadly, my work explores how contests over space have also been contests over power, identity, and the terms of civic membership.

Advisor: Alice O’Connor

TA for HIST 17C: The American People. Spring 2026.

Intern for City of Toronto’s “Housing Secretariat”. 2024-2025.

Provost Scholar, University of Toronto. Spring 2025.

Chancellor Scholar, University of Toronto. Autumn 2023.

Dean’s List Scholar. Spring 2023.