My current work focuses on university students' understandings of race.  Using longitudinal data, I aim to explore university students’ racial conceptualizations, attitudes, and sense of self, and to assess the extent to which universities, as White institutional spaces, moderate them.   

Previously, my work focused on the ways in which high school students come to understand race and ethnicity through their parents and how race and Whiteness operate in schools.  I was particularly interested in how parental racial socialization influences high school students’ attitudes and ideas about race and how these different understandings of race relate to high school students’ educational experiences and academic outcomes.  

My research is largely quantitative.  To account for the multidimensional and dynamic nature of these social processes, I utilize survey data and principal factor analysis to holistically capture the underlying latent constructs.  Qualitative data is used to contextual my research and to add nuance and complexity throughout my research.

Through my work, I hope to cultivate a supportive academic community by promoting data accessibility and stimulating creative research opportunities.  Information for where I have found the data in my research is provided below.  Syntax and data files for the analytical samples in my studies are available upon request.

I am happy to be a resource in any way I can, especially as it relates to data access, research design, and data analysis.  Feel free to reach out to me!