I am a Postdoctoral Associate in the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work at MIT. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Scholar 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 all elites in Dallas for its first 125 years. I use the Dallas data to tackle classic topics in stratification, economic sociology, and the social science of elites. My first paper using the Dallas data, “The Family Web,” recently co-won the 2025 Socio-Economic Review Best Paper Prize.

I received my Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University. My work has been supported by the Harvard Stone Program, 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.