I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Fairfield University. I received my PhD in Sociology with a specialization in Demography from the University of Texas at Austin in 2024 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

My research interests lie at the intersection of marriage and families, social class, gender, and public policy. My work explores the drivers of social class disparities in marriage and divorce rates to understand the structural factors shaping these family outcomes. In particular, I emphasize the role of gendered household and labor market dynamics in shaping family formation, dissolution, and other related outcomes.

My research has been published in the Journal of Marriage and Family, Demography, Demographic Research, and the Journal of Family and Economic Issues, as well as shared at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, American Sociological Association, and the Southern Demographic Association.

I teach or have taught courses in family sociology, gender, and statistics at an undergraduate level, where I leverage anti-oppressive and inclusive pedagogical practices and emphasize active approaches to learning. I enjoy developing new activities and in-class experiences that allow my students to see how topics related to sociology and social inequality pervade our everyday lives.