My work focuses on the water governance, considering the historical political ecology of water law and policy across contexts. My master's thesis investigated the colonial history of central New Mexico's water system and recent social movements for water rights based around the acequias south of Albuquerque. My dissertation research builds on that work to consider the management of drought in central Chile, with attention to the relationship between social struggle and water law and to tensions between communitarian and more centralized forms of control.

I work also in critical university studies to analyze the political economy of universities, and the UC in particular. On that subject and others, I write regularly for non-academic publications.