My research interests lie at the intersection of state violence, necropolitics and power, political violence and war, and law. My research strives to uncover structural relationships between institutions of oppression using qualitative and quantitative methods. My central question is: How do incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people of differing social and citizenship status navigate interactions with overlapping systems of oppression? As a graduate student thus far, I have advanced my research agenda by examining law as a tool of oppression, specifically related to the United States’ interpretations of international humanitarian law and domestic legislation since the start of the “War on Terror” to justify the sustained use of violence, surveillance, and imprisonment in the Middle East; examining the tactics and justifications for expanding the U.S. military regime; and seeking to understand how U.S. youth of color in structurally disinvested schools are overexposed to the school-to-military pipeline.