(Sociology) Ph.D. Date: May 2021 (Expected) Dissertation Title: Families in the Opioid Era: An Investigation of Parental Addiction and Kinship Care in Central Appalachia Dissertation Committee: Mario Luis Small (Chair), Jocelyn Viterna, and William Julius Wilson Research/Teaching Interests: Criminal justice, ethnographic methods, families, rural communities, social inequality, social policy, social support
(Sociology & Social Policy) Ph.D. Date: May 2021 (Expected) Dissertation Title: Gender and Class in the Cognitive Dimension Dissertation Committee: Alexandra A. Killewald (Co-Chair), Jocelyn Viterna (Co-Chair), Michèle Lamont, and Kathleen Gerson Research/Teaching Interests: Gender, Marriage and Family, Inequality, Sociology of Culture, Qualitative Methods
(Sociology) Ph.D. Date: March 2020 Dissertation Title: Government Regulation and Economic Globalization: The Diffusion of Antitrust Law and Merger Control and Its Influence on Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions Dissertation Committee: Frank Dobbin (Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald, and Bart Bonikowski Research/Teaching Interests: Organizations, Corporate Governance, Economic Sociology, Institutionalism, Sociology of Finance, Globalization
(Sociology) Ph.D. Date: May 2021 (Expected) Dissertation Title: In Loco Parentis?: The Boundary Work of Campus Police Dissertation Committee: Christopher Winship (Chair), Michèle Lamont, Robert J. Sampson, and Joscha Legewie Research/Teaching Interests: Crime and criminal justice; policing; sociological theory (classical and critical); youth/adolescents; cultural sociology; race/ethnicity; higher education; qualitative and quantitative methods
(Sociology) Ph.D. Date: May 2021 (Expected) Dissertation Title: The Ecological Sources of Police Behavior Dissertation Committee: Robert J. Sampson (Chair), Christopher Winship, and Anthony Braga Research Interests: Policing, Crime and Criminal Justice, Racial and Ethnic Stratification, Discrimination, Urban Sociology, the Life Course, Quantitative Methods
(Sociology) Ph.D. Date: May 2021 (Expected) Dissertation Title: Climate Change and Inequality in the US: Sociological Analyses of "Big Data" Dissertation Committee: Mary C. Waters (Chair), Jason Beckfield, Joscha Legewie, and James R. Elliott (Rice University) Research Interests: Inequality, Health, Neighborhoods, Environment, Disasters, and Social Demography