I joined the Department of Sociology at Baylor University as an Assistant Professor in 2025 after receiving my PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I study how people’s strategies for negotiating unequal social relations reproduce domination and inequality. My work engages with the sociology of stratification, culture, elites, work, consumption, and social theory.
My first book project, Hollow Bargains (under review), examines the relation between class elites and the middle-class professionals who make their lives run. A second book project, Borrowing Class (invited by the University of Chicago Press), theorizes forms of temporary class mobility. A final project,The Sociology of Makeup (with Mustafa Emirbayer), explores cosmetic makeup with an intersectional and field-theoretic lens. My award-winning research has been published in Sociological Theory, Sociological Science, Socius, and Sociological Forum.