About Me
I'm a National Institutes of Health Ruth L. Kirschstein Individual Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Michigan's Survey Research Center, and I'm affiliated with the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics and the Population Studies Center. I received a PhD in Sociology, with a Graduate Specialization in Demography, from The Ohio State University in 2021.
I study how social and economic forces shape family life and the implications of this process for health and well-being. The American family and the economy have undergone significant changes over the last 50 years. To what extent do worsening economic conditions, such as stagnating wages and rising wealth inequality, restructure family life? What are the implications of new family forms and declining economic opportunity for the health and well-being of parents and children? And how do these processes play out over the life course? These questions motivate my research agenda, and I leverage nationally-representative datasets and longitudinal and causal methods to address them.
My research has been published in or is forthcoming at Demography, Journal of Marriage and Family, and Population Research and Policy Review, among other outlets. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions, or check out my research page if you would like a copy of one of my articles.
