I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto.

Broadly speaking, my research spans the fields of social network analysis, mental and physical health, social stratification, social psychology, and methods. I am passionate about understanding how social inequalities are reproduced through people’s relationships, beliefs, and behaviours across the life course. I am on the academic job market and expect to complete my dissertation in 2026.

My general focus has been on identifying the mechanisms driving persistent inequalities between population groups and fields. Using quantitative and computational methods I have investigated several mechanisms, including boundary processes (for a subdiscipline and sociology more broadly), how sociodemographic factors influence population segregation and integration, health behaviour change (in response to the changing qualities of social networks, or changes in mental health), culturally informed beliefs, and personal network dynamics. My dissertation focused on social networks and health across the life course, but my research agenda has three foci: health inequalities, network inequalities, and population dynamics. For more details, you can find my updated CV here, how I weave together these foci here, and information on my teaching here.

Ideally, the next stage of my career will be to find a productive environment for a multi-national study using the Comparative Panel File (CPF). My research experience with Monica Boyd has improved my familiarity with population-level analyses through several projects using the Canadian confidential Census of Population micro-data. I have now gained access to micro-data for each of the seven countries in the CPF, and seek a position with access to additional micro-data. This will allow for the creation of a novel data source that I will use to leverage counterfactual methods for the decomposition of distributional disparities between population groups. As I only gained access to the individual CPF datasets in August 2025, I am beginning to inspect the harmonized variables as they will in part dictate which questions about the life course, health, and population dynamics I can investigate.

I strongly value open science principles and transparent research practices. This is why I, when possible, choose open-access publishing or provide my research on the Open Science Foundation. I feel strongly that making replication packages available on hosted repositories, alongside the author’s personal copy of the manuscript (or published article, if it is in an open-access journal) are important to maintaining public trust in science and making reliable knowledge claims about the complex mechanisms driving observed social inequalities.