Comprehensive exam areas: migration and methods. Advisor: Daniel E. Martinez.

Selected course research projects:

• Re-analyzed Great Salt Lake survey data with latent class analysis in R (poLCA), replacing a 2×2 vulnerability typology with empirically derived vulnerability profiles (SOC 570B).
• Conducted a structured literature review with documented database searches, inclusion criteria, and citation tracing on punishment and public opinion (SOC 617).
• Wrote a validity critique of a published word-embeddings study (SOC 575).

Thesis: used multilevel logistic regression to test whether perceived ability to migrate away from the drying Great Salt Lake differs along sociodemographic lines, as mobility justice predicts (confirmed by age, income, and gender); developed a vulnerability typology to inform targeted research and policy.

• Co-authored a Natural Hazards Center report on climate displacement planning in FEMA Region 8, built on a systematic search and review (SALSA framework) of climate, environmental, and disaster displacement literature and an analysis of 26 adaptation plans. Contributed to writing and revising the report.
• Research assistant on a Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center (CASC) drying-lakes project: community-based participatory research across the Great Salt Lake, Lake Mead, Lake Powell, and the Salton Sea. Conducted background research, attended community events, and collected data.
• Contributed to the statewide Utah People and Environment Poll on environmental equity and the Great Salt Lake; co-authored a published poll report.
• Helped design the survey behind my thesis and ran all analysis independently (multilevel logistic regression in R).
• Designed, conducted, and coded bilingual (English/Spanish) qualitative interviews.

• Lead Research Assistant, Behavioral Science (Drs. Jennifer Shubert and Kristina Oldroyd), 2022–2023. Conducted the literature review and SPSS analysis of secondary data on how peer-group deviance and school norms shape adolescent deviance; first author on the resulting conference poster.
• Research Assistant, Behavioral Science (Dr. James Taylor), 2022–2023. Conducted literature review, collected physiological data from human participants, and analyzed it in LabChart for a study of sleep restriction and emotional reactivity. Wrote a grant application for an active-learning project.
• Lab Technician, Earth Science (Dr. Eddy Cadet), 2018–2019. Processed water and sediment samples and managed data for studies of trace metals in Utah Lake. Wrote a grant application for a study of heavy metal deposits in construction areas around the lake.

Designed and taught the full course independently.