Research

As a community-engaged scholar, I center community needs in my research process while analytically connecting these needs with their broader sociological context. In doing so, I build deep connections with research participants in ways that allow the creation of rich data that speak to pressing social issues. My research has been funded by the University of North Carolina’s Center for the Study of the American South and published in New Media & Society and Sociological Perspectives, as well as The Oxford Handbook of Political Participation and Digital Entrepreneurship and the Sharing Economy.

My research brings together multiple sociological subfields, including gender, disability, medical sociology, aging and the life course, sociology of the family, sociology of work, and political sociology. Click below to learn more about some of my recent work.