I’m an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Baylor University. I joined the department in 2025 after receiving my PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I study how people’s strategies for negotiating unequal social relations reproduce domination and inequality. My work engages with diverse areas of sociology, including the sociology of work, stratification, elites, culture, consumption, economic sociology, and social theory.
My award-winning research has been published in Sociological Theory, Sociological Science, Socius, and Sociological Forum. I’m currently working on three major book projects. Professional Help (recently completed) examines the relation between class elites and the professionals who make their lives run. Borrowing Class (invited by the University of Chicago Press), theorizes forms of temporary class mobility. And The Sociology of Makeup (with Mustafa Emirbayer) explores cosmetic makeup with an intersectional and field-theoretic lens.