Cornell University
I am an Assistant Research Professor at the Cornell University Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society, with affiliations in Information Science and Sociology, and a member of the Future of Learning Lab. My research examines how people are understood and evaluated through the things they produce, including language, writing, and other forms of expression. I study how culture, identity, and technology shape judgments of merit, fit, and potential, particularly in high-stakes settings such as college admissions and parole. Drawing on large-scale administrative data, experiments, computational methods, and generative AI, I examine both how people present themselves within systems of evaluation and how evaluators interpret the signals they encounter. More broadly, my work asks how new technologies and methods for measuring human behavior reproduce, reshape, or reveal the social processes through which people are sorted and stratified.
Presenting three papers on beauty bias, language ideology, and automated transcription at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting and the Junior Theorists Symposium (August 2026).
Joined the Editorial Board of Cultural Sociology (June 2026).