I am Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bowdoin College. I received my doctorate from the University of Notre Dame in 2024 and was subsequently a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Inter-American Policy and Research at Tulane University.
My work cuts across Sociology of Law, Organizations, and Politics, and seeks to explain the causes of corruption prosecutions. My research examines this question from two angles. The first one, topic of my book project Politicians Behind Bars, focuses on how prosecutors’ cultural and organizational practices shape their effectiveness to prosecute economic and political elites. This work draws on more than 120 in-depth interviews with federal prosecutors and other judicial actors in Brazil. My second project explains the decision-making of judges in the context of corruption trials. This research uses quantitative analyses to analyze whether decisions of sentencing and appeals are affected by judges’ ideology, defendants’ political affiliation, and social movement mobilization. At Bowdoin, I am teaching courses on quantitative methods, social movements and collective action, and the sociology of white-collar crime. |