Welcome! I’m an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis. My research explores the mechanisms that create and sustain racial inequality in contemporary American society.

Most of my current research investigates how racial inequality is produced in suburbia. I see race and place as interwoven and use this perspective to understand how racial inequality is produced spatially. This work includes projects on municipal incorporation, racial segregation and integration, and Black suburbs. I have a book under contract with the University of California Press about racial diversity in suburbia called Diversityland: Hidden Racial Inequality in an American Suburb. I am also the director of the St. Louis Zoning Atlas, which aims to collect, standardize, and map all zoning ordinances in the St. Louis metropolitan area to better understand how zoning relates to racial and class inequalities.

In another line of work, I use causal inference methods to examine the role of cash transfers in health processes and theories of health interventions.

If I’m not researching, I’m probably working in my backyard garden planting more veggies and flowers!