Position Title
Graduate Student
I am interested in applying social network perspectives and methods to a variety of issues. Currently, my work focuses on the ways in which gender moderates the association between one's location in a friendship network and their subjective perception of loneliness.
Topics I have researched in the past include how consumer choice influences the kinds of gendered identities that can be crafted (and how in this way gendered identities are perpetuated) through gendered children's toy selection across varying price points; how negative attitudes towards gay men and bisexual individuals, and stereotypical portrayals of sexual minorities that are incongruent with conceptions of the traditional breadwinner employee, will result in workplace disadvantages, specifically earnings; and finally, how macro-level crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic can inform pharmaceuticalization through an association between the pandemic transition to remote learning and the nonmedical use of prescription stimulants.
- M.A. 2021, Sociology, University of Houston
- B.A. 2019, Political Science and Sociology (with honors), University of Houston
- 2023 Dean’s Distinguished Graduate Fellowship ($60,000), University of California- Davis
- 2021 Graduate School Fund Scholarship ($2,500), University of Houston
- 2021 Graduate Small Grant ($250), University of Houston
- 2021 Graduate School Fund Scholarship($2,500), University of Houston
- 2021 Student Success Tuition Fellowship ($2,880), University of Houston
- 2020 Graduate School Fund Scholarship ($2,500), University of Houston
- 2020 Student Success Tuition Fellowship ($2,880), University of Houston
- 2020 College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Dean’s Graduate Scholarship ($1,000), University of Houston
- Social Network Analysis
- Research Methods
- Gender
- Health Disparities
- Sociology of Health
- Medical Sociology
- Presider over 2021 ASA Open Refereed Round Tables Session “Trends in Health and Bodily Autonomy.”