Sociologist of cities, population, housing policy, and child wellbeing.

I recently completed my PhD in Sociology and Public Policy at Duke University. This fall, I will join Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development as an Assistant Professor of Human and Organizational Development.

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.