I am a sociologist and an incoming Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies at the University of Utah.
I received my Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University and my postdoctoral training as a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Fellow in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention at the Stanford School of Medicine.
My work is at the intersection of sociology and medicine, and I am an expert on gender, family, and health disparities in the contemporary US. My book, How the other half eats (forthcoming November 2021, Little Brown Spark), examines the causes and contours of nutritional inequality in America. It reveals how structural inequities not only shape what food parents can afford to buy their kids, but also what food means to parents. These meanings, often overlooked, contribute to widespread diet disparities. My newest research project, which extends this work on parenthood and health, examines birth trauma as a mechanism of gender inequality and maternal health disparities. Together, these two projects fit within my broader research agenda on the social determinants of health and disease.