I am a cultural sociologist who explores how people make sense of class and how these processes of sense-making can be implicated in the reproduction of inequality. My work engages with diverse areas of sociology, including class analysis, inequality and stratification, elite studies, work and occupations, consumption, morality, and social theory. My research has been published in Sociological Science, Socius, and Sociological Forum. My new article, “Class Experience Mobility in Work, Consumption, and Relationships,” is out now in Sociological Theory.
I am completing my PhD in sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I received my BA in Sociology and German Studies at Macalester College. My Kansas childhood left me with a strong affection for barbecue and John Brown.