Examining How Access to Green Space Impacts Subjective Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic
NSF-RAPID Grant #2029301
The aim of this project is to explore the connections among green space, perception of risk, and well-being in times of a public health emergency that require people to stay indoors and isolated.
Trees of Interest: An Ethnography of NYC Street Trees
This project examines the roles of street trees and residents’ relationships to them within the socioecological production of New York City, and how framing street trees as green infrastructure is reshaping these roles.
Weeds in the City
This project, currently in development, uses an ethnographic approach to explore the cultural, aesthetic, and ecological role of weedy plant species in urban life.
NSF-RAPID Grant #2029301
The aim of this project is to explore the connections among green space, perception of risk, and well-being in times of a public health emergency that require people to stay indoors and isolated.
Trees of Interest: An Ethnography of NYC Street Trees
This project examines the roles of street trees and residents’ relationships to them within the socioecological production of New York City, and how framing street trees as green infrastructure is reshaping these roles.
Weeds in the City
This project, currently in development, uses an ethnographic approach to explore the cultural, aesthetic, and ecological role of weedy plant species in urban life.
Past Projects
How Nature Impacts Well-being in Washington Square Park
This project explores the role connectedness to nature plays in subjective well-being. It identifies what natural and design elements contribute to the happiness of park users.
"To Nurture Something the Nurtures You": Care, Creativity, Class, and the Production of Urban Environments in Deindustrial Michigan
This research examines the ways members of diverse communities within a small city in deindustrialized Michigan attempted to make their city both more ecologically sustainable and socially equitable by using vegetable gardens and beehives to care for their households, communities, and ecosystems. This project also investigates the ways differences of class, intersecting with race, are related to these caring projects.
This project explores the role connectedness to nature plays in subjective well-being. It identifies what natural and design elements contribute to the happiness of park users.
"To Nurture Something the Nurtures You": Care, Creativity, Class, and the Production of Urban Environments in Deindustrial Michigan
This research examines the ways members of diverse communities within a small city in deindustrialized Michigan attempted to make their city both more ecologically sustainable and socially equitable by using vegetable gardens and beehives to care for their households, communities, and ecosystems. This project also investigates the ways differences of class, intersecting with race, are related to these caring projects.
