• Sociology
• Computational Social Science
• Criminology
• Ethics in ML

Assistant professor at UNC–Chapel Hill jointly appointed in Sociology and the School of Data Science and Society.

In 2024 I received a PhD from UC Irvine in Criminology, Law & Society with an emphasis in Race and Justice.

Recognition

Fellowships & awards

• 2023–24 Haynes Fellowship
• 2022–23 National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research Award
• 2022–23 UC Irvine Public Impact Fellowship
• 2018–23 Social Ecology Arnie Binder Fellowship

My work has won awards from the American Society of Criminology, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, the Center for the Study of Guns in Society, and the Western Society of Criminology. I did fieldwork and manage data for the Shadow Costs project — testing the impact of rehabilitation classes and monetary sanctions (funded by NSF, NIJ, RSF, and Haynes grants).

In progress

Active projects

1. 01Reconsidering causal theories of neoliberalism.
2. 02Evaluating the Shadow Costs of treatment programs.
3. 03Creating spatial preference measures for surveys and survey experiments.
4. 04Assessing how gun ownership and race affect neighborhood socialization.
5. 05Investigating how gun owners socialize around guns.

Service

I serve on the editorial board of Social Forces, have served for Sociological Perspectives, and review widely.

Prior experience and interests

Before academia, I built models and developed strategies for technology and infrastructure companies as a consultant and data analyst. I earned my bachelors in 2014 at Harvard — with a major in Social Studies and a minor in Psychology — and wrote a senior thesis on how police and gun owners idealized gun ownership.

Outside of work, I enjoy culinary experiments (like perfecting my own beef jerky recipe), being active, and the challenge of playing progressive metal drum parts.