About

I am a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. My research examines the public policy of policing in cities. I study how organizational processes, urban governance, and politics shape public safety. I am interested in how advances in causal inference and related statistical methods can be applied to contemporary and historical administrative data. At UChicago, I am also a researcher affiliated with the UChicago Justice Project and an Urban Doctoral Fellow at the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation. I serve as an Assistant Editor for the American Journal of Sociology.

I am also a Graduate Research Scholar at the Justice Policy Lab at Brown University's Watson Institute and a Graduate Student Research Scholar for the Policing Project at NYU School of Law. Previously, I was a Program Associate in the Redefining Public Safety program at the Vera Institute of Justice in New York City for four years.

My dissertation, Governing Against the City: Police Unions and Urban Governance, examines how police unions shape officer behavior on the street and wield power in the politics of policing in American cities.