I am a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis and on the academic job market in 2026–2027.

I study how institutions and life circumstances shape people's experiences in the labor market and the work-related choices available to them. My dissertation builds on these interests by examining how contact with the criminal legal system shapes employment in the United States, including job tenure and employment trajectories among formerly incarcerated workers and work hours among parents whose children have been arrested. Another line of my work examines unpaid overtime in Japan, focusing on the conditions that lead workers to work unpaid overtime and the consequences of doing so.

I choose methodological approaches that best fit my research questions. In my dissertation, I primarily use quantitative methods. Some projects use causal inference methods, including matching and staggered difference-in-differences, while others use descriptive approaches such as sequence analysis.

Happy to connect via email or at conferences!