Hi, I am a sociologist who studies wealth, poverty, and families—in order to understand how societies become economically and racially stratified.

Since September 2025, I have held an appointment as the Stone Program Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University. Prior to joining the Harvard Stone Program, I received my Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Michigan.

My research advances our understanding of how population-level inequalities are shaped by different aspects of temporal dynamics, including life-course timing and shifting historical contexts. It is not just what happens to you that matters, but when something occurs and how long it lasts. Each paper of my dissertation addresses a different facet of this theoretical argument, by investigating the role of temporal dynamics in the contexts of intergenerational poverty and family wealth accumulation. The first chapter of my dissertation won the 2023 Robert D. Mare Graduate Student Paper Award from the ASA Section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility.

My postdoctoral research builds upon these insights by examining how changes to the political economy of wealth have affected the economic foundation of families. Drawing on a unique combination of institutional and demographic theories, my research investigates a key pathway by which government policies directly affect the wealth of American families—and maintain systems of racialized wealth inequality.

I will be on the academic job market in August 2026. If you have any questions, or if you would like to chat, please reach out to me!

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