Contact Information
3120 Lincoln Hall
Urbana, IL 61801
M/C 454
Phone: 217-300-6396
Biography
Prior to joining UIUC, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Sciences Po in Paris. I received my Ph.D. in sociology from the Ohio State University in 2018 and received a BA from the University of Kansas.
Research Interests
Economic Sociology; Environmental Sociology; Race, Gender, and Class; Theory; Political Economy; Global and Transnational Sociology; Political Sociology
Research Description
My research combines classic themes from political economy and the sociology of inequality to understand contemporary socio-economic problems. This includes the "financialization," economic restructuring and globalization; the relationship between climate change and economic growth; native, gender, and class pay gap dynamics in the workplace; the class politics of the 2007-8 financial crisis; and how new business strategies unequally distribute profits and power in society.
Courses Taught
Soc 200: Introduction to Social Theory
Soc 226: Political Sociology
Soc 500: Classical Social Theory
Soc 501: Contemporary Social Theory
Soc 596: Political Economy
Soc 596: Political Sociology
External Links
Recent Publications
(with Olivier Godechot and Mirna Safi) 2023. "Who Benefits from Migrant and Female Labor? Connecting Wages to Demographic Changes in French Workplaces." Sociological Forum.
2022. “Class Power in Hard Times: Excavating Nicos Poulantza’s Theory of the Capitalist State through the History of the 2007-8 Crisis” Critical Historical Studies. 9(2): 195-220.
2022. “Financialization Goes South: Foreign Capital Flows and Financial Accumulation in Emerging Markets.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology. Available Online.
2021. “Did the ‘Real’ Economy Turn Financial? Mapping the Contours Financialization in the non-Financial Corporate Sector” New Political Economy. 26 (5), 817-831
2019. “Profiting in a Warming World: Investigating the Links between Capitalist Profitability and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in OECD States.” Sociological Forum. 34(4). 974-998.
(with Michael Nau). 2019. “Citadels Privilege: The Rise of LLCs, LPs and the Perpetuation of Elite Power in America.” Economy and Society. 48(3): 399-425.
(with Michael Nau). 2019. “Income Precarity and the Financial Crisis.” Socio-Economic Review. (17)3: 523-544.
(with Tim Bartley and Carl Gershenson). 2019. “Power at a Distance: Organizational Power Across Boundaries.” Sociology Compass. 13(10): Available Online.
2015. “Why Do Firms Financialize? Meso-Level Evidence from the U.S. Apparel and Footwear Industry, 1991-2005.” Socio-Economic Review. 13(3): 549-573.