I am an Assistant Professor of Instruction in Sociology at Northwestern University. My primary research centers on the cultural factors that shape individuals’ identities, trajectories, and experiences. I have published research that explores these relationships in the contexts of disaster recovery, mental health, the training of medical residents, and in higher education. I teach courses about gender (including a course focused on masculinities), inequality, the environment, disasters, health and medicine, and qualitative research methods.
My book project explores how people of different social groups (classes, genders, ages, and races) recover economically, socially, and emotionally from a megafire disaster in Northern California. You can read more about that research here.
My work has been published in Social Science & Medicine, Environmental Sociology, and The Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. For a copy of my most recent CV, click here.
Prior to joining the faculty at Northwestern, I earned my PhD from the University of Chicago.
Areas of Expertise
Sociology of Disaster
Sociology of Gender
Sociology of Mental Health
Qualitative Methods