My research examines how individuals today make sense of competing ideas about the proper role of markets and the salience of race in the organization of society, with a focus on the implications for addressing economic and racial inequality. I often investigate these questions through the lens of housing because it is a major financial asset for most people and a key determinant of life chances today. My scholarship spans the fields of inequality and stratification, economic and cultural sociology, urban sociology, and race and ethnicity. Methodologically, I use survey experiments, natural language processing, and occasionally semi-structured interviews.
This work has received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, the Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the Consumers and Consumption Section of the American Sociological Association, the Jaap Dronkers Award from the Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) of the International Sociological Association, and the Barbara and Sandy Dornbusch Award in Social Psychology from Stanford University.
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