Hello! I’m a PhD Candidate in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and a visiting scholar at Harvard University. I’m also the blog editor for Contexts, the American Sociological Association’s public-facing magazine.

I study culture and inequality, focusing on parent-child relationships in young adulthood. In my dissertation, I use paired interviews with young U.S. college graduates (late 20s and early 30s) and their parents to examine how families navigate financial relationships in the face of high economic barriers to independence and persistent cultural expectations of self-sufficiency as a marker of adulthood (N=145). This project received the Eastern Sociological Society's 2024 Coser Dissertation Proposal Award and has been supported by the Institute of Education Sciences and the Russell Sage Foundation.

My dissertation builds on insights from my two previous studies examining parents’ roles amid COVID-19 educational disruptions. The first, published in the Journal of Marriage and Family, reveals how social class divides in college students’ expectations for parents’ roles gave rise to divergent coping strategies I termed “privileged dependence” and “precarious autonomy.” The second, published in Socius, considers this issue from a life course perspective, revealing how young adults’ primary “safety net” shifts from parents to romantic partners over time.

In other collaborative projects, I've published on racial essentialism (Annual Review of Sociology), racial disparities in higher education (Socius), and religion's intersections with wealth inequality and public health (Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Sociology of Religion - in press).