Sociologist of population, housing policy, and child wellbeing.

I am an Assistant Professor of Human and Organizational Development in Peabody College at Vanderbilt University.

In my research, I use tools ranging from demography, policy analysis, and qualitative methods to understand: 1) the contexts of residential mobility for families and the consequences of mobility for child wellbeing, and 2) how housing markets are implicated in broader patterns of urban transformation, population change, and spatial inequality. My work has been generously funded by the Russell Sage Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and the W.T. Grant Foundation, and it has been published in Social Forces, Urban Affairs Review, Social Science and Medicine, Social Service Review, Socius, and Housing Policy Debate. I received