Research

General interests

  • professional sport stadiums and their impacts on residential communities
  • sport development in the southwestern United States
  • advances in qualitative GIS methods

Current project

I am currently studying for my qualifying exams. My dissertation seeks to understand the role that sports stadiums play in terms of capitalist city-making projects. I draw from work on spectacular urban environments designed for tourism, elevating the renown of the city on the national and international scales. I am specifically looking at State Farm Stadium, an NFL stadium in Glendale, Arizona. I am curious how the stadium district there works as a city-making project for Glendale, and how that project impacts permanent residents' sense of place. I am approacching this prroject with several different methods, including archival methods, qualitative GIS, and walking interviews.


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