My primary research areas are discourse, race and gender ideology, leisure in the Americas and visual sociology.

My work is located at the intersections of cultural sociology, urban sociology, sociology of race and ethnicity, and sociology of leisure; my scholarly approach is multidisciplinary and synthetic, bringing sociology together with Black and Native Studies, Critical Race (legal) Theory, Feminist and Queer Theory, and studies of colonialism across disciplines (Postcolonialism, Latin American Subaltern Studies, and Settler Colonialism).

My current book project investigates how heritage sites in St. Augustine, Florida disseminate racialized (White supremacist), gendered (hetero-patriarchal), and capitalist ideologies and subjectivities to visitors through storytelling about history.

In my peer-reviewed publications, I have intervened in colorblind discourses in an effort to make race and racism matter in sociological subfields of leisure and urban sociology.

My work has been published in City and Community and International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure.