Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology at The Pennsylvania State University. My research interrogates how policy environments and social institutions reflect and reproduce inequities in health, well-being, and life chances. My scholarship has received funding support from the Russell Sage and Gates Foundations and has been published in peer-reviewed outlets including Social Forces, Demography, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Social Science & Medicine, and International Migration Review, among others. 

My current research:

• explores the role of the U.S. immigration policy patchwork in shaping immigrant integration

• uncovers inequities in the structure and delivery of U.S. health care, particularly across U.S. states

• investigates how educational and occupational attainment affect the health and economic well-being of immigrants across the socioeconomic/"skills" spectrum