Ph.D. candidate

Department of Sociology
University of Wisconsin – Madison
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706

I’m a sociology graduate student at UW-Madison, where I proudly worked as a project assistant in the Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS).  I studied economics at the New School for Social Research before coming to UW Sociology.  My research interests are quite varied and include political economy, labor economics, macro-sociology, social stratification, and quantitative methods.

My dissertation is currently titled “Class, inequality and economic stability.”  It consists of three articles tied together by a common theme: In the history of the United States, class conflict over the distribution of income has had significant but unintended consequences on the stability of the economy and on economic crises.  For more detail see my research page.

Although each article use very different statistical methods, they all intersect with and attempt to tie together the areas of stratification (specifically class), economic sociology, labor and historical sociology.  Among my hopes and ambitions for this project is that it will contribute towards sociologists reversing some “economics imperialism” by showing that historically grounded institutional analysis can offer insights into areas of study traditionally associated only with macroeconomics.

This website is still under construction.  Please bear with me.