I am a political economic and legal geographer focused on insurance— as a technology, an industry, and the spatial practice of underwriting. More broadly, my concern is the conjunctural articulation of risk-bearing subjects. I am most interested in the public policy role of commercial and public insurance programs, particularly where they emerge as discursive market-based solutions in juxtaposition to other more transformative, non-market policy proposals. I am especially keen to understand how the socio-technical politics of actuarial risk assessment play into the spatial and scalar formation of carceral labor regimes.

As such, there is a duality to my work that I try to balance, which includes nature-society-oriented investigations of the National Flood Insurance Program and the unfree labor of incarcerated wildland firefighters in the Pacific Northwest. On the other hand, I take great critical interest in U.S. federal, state, and local carceral policy— namely officer liability, electronic monitoring, and police union administration, member protections, and collective bargaining.