My research and teaching goals are centered around the possibilities that analytical examination of taken-for-granted ideas about race, law, and language can inform transformative change. I seek to provide students with an opportunity to consider how current structures for attaining justice, restitution, acknowledgment, and reparations might be re-imagined and re-built. In my mentoring of first-generation undergraduate students for the American Bar Foundation summer research program, I have encouraged students to engage with research questions about law that are also of interest to affected communities. In encouraging students to do research on beliefs about fairness and justice through the law from the perspective of stakeholders, I emphasize that engaged research that centers questions that matter to the participants of the research simultaneously enhance the scope and significance of social science research. 

I teach Sociology of Law at the undergraduate and graduate levels and a course on The Power of Language in Society. Future courses will include Law and Language, Discourse Analysis, and Introduction to Semiotics.