I am a guest researcher at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, where I study political economy and the making of mass fashion.

My book project, Routinizing Creativity (under advance contract with Stanford University Press), lays out where fashion comes from and how anticipation shapes the labor process. I am also doing work on global value chains, the sociology of knowledge, and the geography of recognition.

My work has been supported with over $125,000 in funding, including a Kohli Fellowship at the WZB and a Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship. Awards and nominations have come from the Academy of Management, the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, and four sections of the American Sociological Association. 

Before joining the WZB I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. I received my PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.