I am currently a Postdoctoral Associate at the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research, and I will begin as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at The University of Southern California in Fall, 2026. I received a PhD in Sociology and Social Policy with a certificate in Demography from Princeton University in July, 2024.

My research focuses on how advantaged groups produce inequality and poverty, with substantive foci on rental and labor markets. In one research program, I focus on urban landowners, speculators, and developers, asking “who owns our cities, and how do they shape outcomes like housing precarity, the geography of crime, and neighborhood change?” In doing so, I bring a relational perspective to urban sociology, showing how the positions of advantaged groups are intimately related to those of the disadvantaged. In the second, I focus on the firm behavior, portraying labor market inequality as a product of power-laden organizational decision-making as much as it is of variation in individual workers’ endowments. Despite the different substantive foci, both strands of research draw on the sociology of elites, economic sociology, organizational decision-making, and political economy to understand the production of inequality and poverty.