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I am currently a Senior Research Associate and Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and an affiliate of the Religion and Social Change Lab (RaSCL) at Duke University. In this role, I lead qualitative data collection and analysis for the Seminary to Early Ministry (SEM) Study. This longitudinal, mixed methods, cohort study follows divinity school students from matriculation into the early years of their careers in an effort to examine how seminary forms students. Using annual surveys, in-depth interviews, and ethnographic site visits we are tracking students' physical and mental health, career aspirations, academic experiences, theological beliefs, social and political attitudes, and early ministry experiences. This is the first-ever long-term study of divinity school students.

I also co-lead a new project, "Politics and Polarization in Mainline Protestant Congregations," which has received funding from Bass Connections at Duke University, and teach undergraduate courses in the Department of Sociology.

Before coming to Duke, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University, where I worked with Ari Kelman and colleagues in the Concentration for Education and Jewish Studies on projects at the intersection of learning, religion, and identity. 

From 2016-2018, I was a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Introductory Studies program at Stanford University, where I collaborated with senior faculty and other fellows to design and implement innovative, interdisciplinary courses for first-year students at Stanford. You can read more about my teaching experience here.

I received my PhD in sociology from Princeton University in September 2015, and served as a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Princeton during the 2015-2016 academic year.

I have also taught classes in sociology and social psychology at Kean University (NJ) and Bennington College (VT). I served as the Sociology Course Director for Verto Education's field semester programs from 2020-2021.

I currently serve as Associate Editor for Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review.