I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology at The Ohio State University. My central interest is in the connotations of social labels, uncertainty around those connotations, and how connotations and uncertainty affect and are affected by discourse and interaction. My research is rooted in social psychology and cultural sociology and I tie it to other areas such as work and occupations, linguistics, politics, health, gender, and criminology. I use quantitative and computational methods, including natural language processing. I build open source software that facilitates research on identity processes in social interaction.

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