My broader research agenda centers around urban and environmental politics in Latin America, with a focus on the nature and outcomes of urban informality and citizen-state interaction. My ongoing dissertation project explores how environmental and housing policies are brokered between urban governments, civil society organizations, and residents of informal settlements in Brazil. An overview of my dissertation work has been featured by the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania and can be found here. Other active research projects of mine focus on the public opinion of environmental and health politics, the effects of natural disasters on voting behavior, and the effects of routinized police violence on civil society mobilization and civic engagement.