I am a sociologist and demographer who studies the political economy of care work and its relationship to family formation. Through quantitative studies, I explore how the family outcomes of some depend on the access they have to the reproductive labor of others.

I am currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Race, Inequality and Social Equity Studies at Harvard University and a postdoctoral affiliate at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. I received my PhD in Sociology from UC Berkeley in 2026.

Research

My dissertation examined how the racial division of reproductive labor between domestic workers and middle-class households shaped historical racial inequalities in family formation. Using full count Census data from 1910 to 1940, I show how changes to the labor market for domestic workers brought about by Black women’s migration to cities made it easier for White women to marry earlier and have more children. A paper from this project, Marriage and the Racial Division of Reproductive Labor: Evidence from the Great Migration, 1910-1940 (R&R at American Journal of Sociology), was recently awarded the Dorothy S. Thomas Award for best graduate student paper by the Population Association of America. I am currently developing a related project that asks: did Black women’s migration and occupational segregation into domestic work in the early twentieth century affect their own family formation?

In my contemporary work, I examine the consequences of outsourcing domestic and care labor for key life-course outcomes. In a working paper using the Health and Retirement Study, Emily Curran and I test whether couples who outsource domestic tasks are at lower risk of divorce and separation later in life.

Beyond the political economy of care, I have published papers on the role of income dynamics in the Black-White wealth gap and methods for linking and harmonizing large-scale micro data. I work primarily with publicly available survey data, including full count historical Census data.

Teaching

At UC Berkeley I was a Senior Data Science Fellow at the D-Lab, where I taught workshops on data science for the social sciences. I have taught undergraduate courses on social theory and demographic methods.