I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware and faculty affiliate at the Texas Policy Lab at Rice University. My research examines the intersection of social inequality and the welfare state. My book manuscript, Everything is Broken: How the Childcare Market Creates Inequality (under contract with University of California Press) examines how the American childcare system contributes to inequality on two planes: among mothers at home and work, and to growing trends of economic inequality among households.
My work appears in outlets including the American Journal of Sociology, Social Problems, RSF: The Russell Sage Journal for the Social Sciences, and The Washington Post and has received awards, including the James Thompson Student Paper Award from the American Sociological Association and the Poverty, Class, and Inequality Division Student Paper Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems. My research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the American Sociological Association.
I received my PhD in Sociology from Brown University.