My research examines how racialized environments and geographic processes shape inequalities in health and biological aging. As a medical sociologist, I draw on theories of race and racism, social epigenetics, and archival records to understand how macro- and meso-level conditions become embodied over the life course.

My dissertation integrates quantitative and qualitative methods to develop measures of racialized space and investigate how legacies of sundown towns and Black settlements continue to shape contemporary environments, everyday life, and patterns of biological aging.