Research
General interests
- professional sport stadiums and their impacts on residential communities
- sport development in the southwestern United States
- access to outdoor recreation spaces, including public parks, urban greenspaces, and open spaces
Current project
Right now, I am studying for my qualifying exams. My dissertation seeks to understand how the impacts of professional sports stadiums change throughout time. While much work has been done studying the impacts of stadiums (John Charles Bradbury, Kevin Delaney & Rick Eckstein, and John Bale having done some of the best work on this topic), most studies look at a simple before and after comparison to understand those impacts. We look at before the stadium was built and after it was built, and that's it. Time geographers, like Henri Lefebrve, Pavel Klapka, Elaine Lynnn-Ee Ho, argue that time is more nuanced than a before and after. It can be cyclical, seasonal, and exist at different scales (an hour, a day, a weekend, a work week, etc.). I apply those smaller scales of time to the discussion of sports stadium impacts. How does a stadium impact local residents in a day? A week? Do those impacts change in and out of the sport season?
