I am an Associate Professor of Sociology and faculty affiliate in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of North Texas. My research and teaching focuses on understanding how inequalities are produced and disrupted in everyday life. I am also an expert on qualiative research methods, which I use to study gender, work, and family in the U.S. and Latin America.

My award-winning book, The People’s Hotel: Working for Justice in Argentina (Duke University Press, 2022), is a long-term ethnographic study of worker-recuperated businesses in Argentina, which are workplaces that were closed by their private owners, occupied by their workers, and reopened as worker cooperatives. The book details how work has been reconfigured without a boss and the possibilities for producing equality in the workplace. It won the 2025 Max Weber Award from the American Sociological Association.

My new project examines LGBTQ+ family formation using innovative arts-based methods. Combining scholarly research and artistic production, this collaborative project traces how queer people reconfigure power dynamics, negotiate bodily autonomy, and navigate medical and social institutions as they form families and have children. Based on carefully collected reproductive histories, this research also reopens important questions about age patterns of fertility that will have major scholarly and social impact.

I am a Fulbright Scholar and my research has also been supported by the National Science Foundation. I earned my PhD in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin in 2018, where I was a Graduate Fellow in the Urban Ethnography Lab. I also received a B.B.A. and B.A. in the Plan II Honors Program at the University of Texas at Austin.