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. I am also a member of the Future of Learning Lab. My research focuses on questions about outward expression and personal essence: can we separate the art from the artist? The author from the text? The speaker from their speech? I use these questions as intellectual starting points to examine culture, language, and social processes of evaluation, particularly in high-stakes settings like college admissions and parole hearings, through the massive amounts of data generated therein. I leverage administrative, experimental, AI-generated, and social media data to show how individual and shared identity shape human expression and to better understand how demography and culture intersect to create the information used to build and fuel technologies that sort, stratify, and organize social life. This work has increasingly drawn me toward examining the tools, methods, and frameworks researchers use in these settings.
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).