Hello! I’m a PhD Candidate in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and a Fellow in Sociology at Harvard University. I’m also the managing editor of Contexts, the ASA’s public-facing journal.

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 across diverse socioeconomic and ethnoracial backgrounds navigate intergenerational support at this life stage. This project received the Eastern Sociological Society’s 2024 Coser Dissertation Proposal Award and has been supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, the Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research, 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, revealed 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, in Socius, demonstrated how American cultural norms prescribing independence from parents at older ages and among partnered adult children persisted despite large-scale social upheaval.

In earlier research, I studied culture and inequality beyond family contexts, focusing on higher education, race/ethnicity, and religion. Articles from these projects have been published in Sociology of Religion, theJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Socius, and the Annual Review of Sociology.