The main questions driving my research interests are how norms around national identities and belonging are defined culturally and legally, how they are experienced by immigrants intergenerationally, and how race structures those norms and experiences transnationally. I have developed multimethod skills through U.S.- and France-based projects employing interview, ethnographic, archival, and statistical methods. I currently pursue two main streams of research—one focused on cultural citizenship, race, and assimilationism and another focused on legal citizenship and postcolonial migration. My book project, "Assimilation’s False Promises: How Immigrant Families Experience the Everyday Politics of Race and Belonging in the US and France," combines generational and comparative approaches to focus our attention on ideologies of assimilationism from the standpoint of immigrant families in the U.S. and France—a shift away from the conventional focus on immigrants’ assimilation under supposedly different regimes of integration. I have also published research on race, gender, and educational inequality in Sociology of Education and Poetics.

The (Racial) Politics of National Culture