- Sociology
- Computational Social Science
- Criminology
- Ethics in ML
Assistant professor at UNC–Chapel Hill jointly appointed in Sociology and the School of Data Science and Society.
In 2024 I received a PhD from UC Irvine in Criminology, Law & Society with an emphasis in Race and Justice.
Fellowships & awards
- 2025– Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow
- 2025– NIA Emerging Scholar, Carolina Center for Population Aging and Health (NIH P30)
- 2026 Carolina Population Center Seed Grant (NICHD)
- 2025 Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) Award
- 2025–26 UNC–Tübingen Global Partnership Award
- 2023–25 BRIDGS Emergent Scholar (ASU Center for the Study of Guns in Society)
- 2023–24 Haynes Lindley Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
My work has won paper awards from the American Society of Criminology, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the Western Society of Criminology. Recent articles appear in PNAS, Science Advances, Law & Society Review, Social Studies of Science, and Social Problems. I also collaborate on the Shadow Costs project, studying monetary sanctions and rehabilitation.
Active projects
- 01Building GRIDDY, a Qualtrics tool for grid-based spatial preference measurement.
- 02Measuring how race and gun ownership shape neighborhood preferences (TESS-funded).
- 03Studying LLM persuasion to reduce access to lethal means.
- 04Reconsidering causal theories of neoliberalism.
- 05Tracing restive currents in U.S. gun ownership culture.
Service
I serve on the editorial board of Social Forces, am a guest editor for a Law, Probability & Risk special issue on statistical models for fingerprint analysis, and review widely.
Before UNC
Before academia, I worked as a strategy consultant and data analyst in Boston. I earned my A.B. at Harvard in Social Studies.
Outside of work, I enjoy culinary experiments (like perfecting my own beef jerky recipe), being active, and the challenge of playing progressive metal drum parts.