My research centers on two lines of inquiry in the domain of housing, which I focus on as a major source of economic and racial inequality in contemporary society. The first examines how people make judgments in the domain of housing, including projects on how individuals evaluate the legitimacy of different types of homebuyers and interpret neighborhood safety. The second explores the evolution of the cultural dimensions of commodification in the housing market. Methodologically, I use survey experiments, natural language processing, and occasionally semi-structured interviews.
This work has received the Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the Consumers and Consumption Section of the American Sociological Association (2026), the Jaap Dronkers Award from the Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) of the International Sociological Assocation (2025), and the Barbara and Sandy Dornbusch Award in Social Psychology from Stanford University (2026).