Doctoral Student

Between 2021 and 2023, I received my Sociology B.A. and M.A. at the University of Central Florida. While at UCF, my research focused on White evangelicalism, gender, race, and Christian nationalism. My master’s thesis consisted of ethnographic observations and interviews at two White-led evangelical churches in central Florida where I analyzed the prevalence of Christian nationalism in sermon messaging and congregants’ attitudes regarding politics and racial inequality in the U.S. using a Critical Race Theory perspective. Such research was informed by my lived experience as a Puerto Rican woman in a predominantly White evangelical community. Being passionate about public scholarship, I also co-hosted a sociology podcast, Free the Mind, Free the People, during my time at UCF.

Currently, I am studying the extent to which Christian nationalism is disseminated via White evangelical media and the underlying social networks that promote such messaging. Some of my additional research interests include environmental sociology/humanities, the Anthropocene, narratives of societal collapse, colonialism, temporality, and indigenous/African futurisms.