I am a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at Indiana University Bloomington. My research centers on the psychological consequences of social stratification, with a particular focus on common mental health conditions such as major depression. I am especially interested in so-called “mental health paradoxes” that traditional theories of stratification cannot easily explain.
My work lies at the intersection of medical sociology, social psychology, inequality, and culture. For example, I am a research assistant for Dr. Brea Perry’s Social Networks in Alzheimer Disease (SNAD) study, where I have examined topics such as (1) socioeconomic disparities in cognition and (2) mental health outcomes during COVID-19.
I received an M.S. in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where I served as a predoctoral trainee at the National Institute on Aging, a division of the National Institutes of Health. I have an active interest in pedagogy, having published in Teaching Sociology and having completed IU's Preparing Future Faculty training, and I was recently the sole instructor for a course on the Sociology of Mental Illness.
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