I am a sociologist and ethnographer interested in culture, education, the family, inequality, qualitative methods, social psychology, and theory. In particular, I examine how inequalities - especially class, race, and gender inequalities - are reproduced.

I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Inequality in America Initiative, Harvard University. I received my PhD in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. Having grown up in the UK, I received my undergraduate and Master’s degrees from the University of Edinburgh and University of Cambridge, respectively.

My research has been funded by the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation and received numerous awards from the American Sociological Association and the Eastern Sociological Society. Articles of mine have been published in the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Bulletin of Sociological Methodology, and Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.