I am an assistant professor at UNC–Chapel Hill, jointly appointed in Sociology and the School of Data and Information Sciences.

I received my PhD in Criminology, Law & Society from UC Irvine in 2024.

Fellowships & grants

• 2026–27 AI Acceleration Program Faculty Fellowship UNC–Chapel Hill Provost’s Office
• 2025–present Faculty Fellow Carolina Population Center
• 2025–present NIA Emerging Scholar Carolina Center for Population Aging and Health (NIH P30)
• 2026 Carolina Population Center Seed Grant National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
• 2025 Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) Award
• 2025–26 Global Partnership Award UNC–Tübingen
• 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. I also collaborate on the Shadow Costs project, studying monetary sanctions and rehabilitation.

Active projects

• Building GRIDDY, a Qualtrics tool for grid-based spatial preference measurement.
• Measuring how race and gun ownership shape neighborhood preferences.
• Studying LLM persuasion to reduce access to lethal means.
• Reconsidering causal theories of neoliberalism.
• Tracing restive currents in U.S. gun ownership culture.

Service

I serve on the editorial board of Social Forces and was a guest editor for a Law, Probability & Risk special issue on statistical models for fingerprint analysis.

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.