Assistant Professor of Sociology - Mount Holyoke College
I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Mount Holyoke College. I recently completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at Stanford University having earned a PhD in Sociology from UC Berkeley in 2018. I’ve spent much of the last two decades exploring the relationship between universities - the students and faculty which inhabit them - and political and social development around the world. My graduate work has been supported by the US Department of Education (Javits Fellowship) and the National Academy o
My manuscript in progress, titled Reengineering the American Elite: Tradition, Technology, and Transformation in Higher Education , received an Advance Contract from the University of Chicago Press. The project is focused on how status is contested, and how instability is managed, among elite universities in the organizational field of higher education. The empirical focus is on how Stanford, MIT, and Harvard produced and responded to the MOOC movement of 2012. Using observations and interviews with adminis