Bio & Contact

I am a fifth year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY, USA).

My research focuses on the intersection between environmental demography, sociology of gender, sociology of health and illness, and social inequality and stratification. The questions that guide my research are: (1) How do environmental hazards contribute to the (re)production of social inequality? and, (2) what are the social mechanisms that shape people’s vulnerability to climate change and the environment? I am also interested in how inequality is reproduced in daily contexts, such as neighborhoods and activity spaces, and, most lately, classrooms. I approach my research from a sociological and demographic perspective, leveraging a wide range of quantitative and computational methods, exogenous variation in exposure to weather conditions, and natural experiments.

My work has been published in Scientific Reports, Social Science & Medicine, Population, Space, and Place, and PLOS One. I have worked with scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including physics, medicine, and geography. I love tackling questions from multidisciplinary perspectives.

You can reach me at: ap963[at]cornell[dot]edu