I am an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society & Sociology at Vanderbilt University. I study the mechanisms through which inequalities in socioeconomic resources, such as wealth, income, or education, translate to disparities in population health. In my dissertation, I used a variety of historical and contemporary data to investigate how and why cigarette smoking became socially stratified in the United States. My scholarship has been published by the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Annual Review of Sociology, Social Science & Medicine, Health Policy and Planning, Population Research and Policy Review, The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, and other outlets.

I was recently awarded the Czech Neuron Prize in the young scientist category and the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science Postdoctoral Award.

You can find my CV here.