I am an MA/PhD student in History at UC Santa Barbara studying twentieth-century U.S. urban history, political economy, and the built environment. My research examines how postwar policymakers, architects, planners, and experts translated social and economic problems into questions of design, technology, planning, and production.
I am particularly interested in housing, urban policy, modernism, technocracy, and the political economy of the Great Society and its aftermath. I am also drawn to utopian and speculative projects, both built and unrealized, as sites for understanding how Americans imagined progress, abundance, citizenship, and the future. My work engages architectural plans and renderings, government and institutional archives, visual and material culture, and the spatial history of cities.
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.
Presentations
“EPCOT and the Utopian Family: Domestic Containment, Corporate Urbanism, and the Gendered Politics of the City of Tomorrow”. Presented at the International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, at London School of Economics, May 9, 2026.