(Sociology, November 2008)
Thesis Title: Irish and American Ghettos: Race and Residential Segregation in Ireland and the United States
Committee: Mary C. Waters (chair), Orlando Patterson, Robert J. Sampson, Dorren McMahon
Initial Placement: NSF Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Population Studies Center, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, McGill University

I received my BA in Sociology and Psychology (1999) from the University of Pennsylvania, and MA (2004) and PhD (2008) in Sociology from Harvard University. I spent two years as a National Science Foundation postdoctoral research fellow at the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania where I acquired additional training in racial/ethnic health disparities and maternal child health. I am an Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Sociology and an Associate Member of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at McGill University. I am also the founding Director of the Indigenous Maternal Infant Health & Well-being (IMIHW) Lab at McGill.