About
I am a computational sociologist who studies how social labels, and the uncertainty we have about them, work in social interaction. How do we measure the uncertainty around the meaning of a label, and how does that uncertainty affect how we use and understand it? My research is rooted in social psychology and cultural sociology and I tie it to other areas such as politics, health, gender, work and occupations, and criminology. I build open source software that facilitates research on identity processes in social interaction.
Interests
- Computational social science
- Cultural sociology
- Social psychology
- Uncertainty
- Identity and social interaction
- Tool-building for social research
Education
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PhD candidate in Sociology
Duke University
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MA in Sociology, 2021
Duke University
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BS in Engineering Physics and Mathematics, 2018
University of Wisconsin--Madison
Recent Publications
(2023).
The Effect of Occupational Status on Health: Putting the Social in Socioeconomic Status.
Conditional acceptance at Cell Press: Heliyon.
(2023).
Reducing Political Polarization with a Mobile Chat Platform.
Nature Human Behavior.
(2023).
Perceived Gender and Political Persuasion: A Social Media Field Experiment during the 2020 US Democratic Presidential Primary Election.
Nature Scientific Reports.
(2020).
Assessing the Impact of the Russian Internet Research Agency on the Political Attitudes and Behaviors of American Twitter Users in Late 2017.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117(1):243-250.