Bio
I am an Assistant Research Professor at The University of Arizona in the School of Landscape Architecture and Planning. I received my Ph.D. in Geography and Planning from École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. My research focuses on human-environment interactions, with particular attention to climate vulnerability and adaptation, environmental justice, and equity. Grounded in political ecology, my earlier work examined the politics of sustainability and water resources management in desert communities. My current research explores community resilience and governance in response to escalating extreme heat challenges.
After numerous trips back and forth to France and long research stays in both the U.S. and Mexico, I moved to Arizona in 2021, where I have developed a regional research program. Empirically, my research focuses on the Southwestern U.S. and the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. I am an interdisciplinary researcher, integrating perspectives from environmental humanities, social sciences, and environmental geography. I have collaborated with urban planners, sociologists, anthropologists, linguists, communication studies experts, ecologists, geomorphologists, and data scientists.
I am a broadly trained methodologist and have conducted numerous semi-structured interviews and participant observation with professionals, stakeholders, community members, and environmental justice activists. My strong interest in discourse analysis has led me to employ large-scale qualitative and quantitative content analysis and historical analysis of archives. The research section below contains more details about the data collection and analysis methods I have used in each research project I have been involved with.
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Research
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