PhD, University of Southampton, UK;
MA, University of Southern California

My teaching and research is guided by my desire to generate a critical awareness and understanding of social problems in cities with to goal of developing doable solutions. I also hope to use my international background to help my students to obtain a more nuanced, globally aware perspective on social problems, its causes, consequences, and remedies.

• Urban Homelessness: Power, Space, and Time
• Urban Studies Speaker Series: Global New York
• Urban Toolbox
• Urban Spaces: Sociological Perspectives
• Homelessness and Public Policy in Post-Industrial Societies
• Globalization and the Welfare State (University of Pennsylvania)

• "The Socio-Spatial Exclusion of Homeless People in Germany and the United States," American Behavioral Scientist, 2005.
• "Welfare State Restructuring and Homelessness in Germany and the United States," Urban Geography, 2001.

Thurs. 2-4p

Homelessness and poverty; Globalization and comparative social policy; Criminalization of the poor; Deviance and social control; Ethnography and life course studies; Grass roots organizing and social movements.

• American Sociological Association
• National Coalition for the Homeless
• Association of American Geographers

• Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation Graduate Scholarship
• The German Marshall Fund of the United States Research Fellowship
• Fulbright Scholarship