I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. My research examines the relationship between gender, social change, and population dynamics.
I am writing a book, Gender, Distributed: The Population Dynamics of the Transgender Tipping Point, under contract with the University of Chicago Press. It grows out of my American Journal of Sociology article, “Has There Been a Transgender Tipping Point?”, on gender identification across U.S. cohorts born between 1935 and 2001.
At Berkeley I am affiliated with the Berkeley Population Center and the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. Before arriving in 2020, I was an NICHD Postdoctoral Fellow at the Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. I received my PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago in 2019. I serve on the editorial board of Demography and as an Associate Editor of Demographic Research.
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Recent
- 2026 “Do Transgender and Non-Binary Workers in the U.S. Retail and Service Sectors Have Lower Quality Jobs Than Their Cisgender Counterparts?”, with Rebecca Wolfe and Daniel Schneider, is forthcoming in Social Problems.
- 2026 Named Outstanding Faculty Advisor in UC Berkeley’s Excellence in Advising & Student Services Awards.
- 2026 Elected to the council of the ASA Section on the Sociology of Sex and Gender.
- 2025 Received a Society of Hellman Fellows Award for “The Berkeley Supplement to the Chicago Face Database.”
- 2025 “Demographic Differences in Responses to a Two-Step Gender Identity Measure” published in Sociological Science.
