I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy at Harvard.

I study the kinship networks that weave elites together. My research tracks the capture and circulation of resources through upper-class populations over time, with a particular focus on women, whiteness, wealth, and the United States.

Combining an array of qualitative and quantitative archival data, I have built the first-ever full kinship network of an upper class in a U.S. city, covering Dallas high society from the Gilded Age to the Second World War. My first major project uses the Dallas data to tackle classic topics in stratification and the sociology of elites, including multigenerational class transmission, elite turnover, and inheritance.

I received my Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University. My work has been supported by an American Sociological Association Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (ASA DDRIG), a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, and funding from multiple sources at Princeton, as well the Clements-DeGolyer Center at Southern Methodist University and the Portal to Texas History at the University of North Texas.