Research

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My work explores how social capital, inequality, and networks influence opportunities and outcomes in various contexts. As someone interested in resources and networks, I love building scholarly communities, and much of my work is collaborative! I also thoroughly enjoy driving my solo research agenda. Please refer to my CV for an updated overview of my research agenda.

Adolescence and Social Capital

1. Intersectional bonds: Delinquency, arrest, and changing family social capital during adolescence
2. The Ties That Bond?: Social Capital in Families
3. Exploring Gendered Stereotypes: Sports Participation and Adolescent Closeness to Mothers
4. Paternal Closeness in Adolescence: The Association of Sports and Gender

Collaboration and Networks

1. Collaborating with Competitors: Exploring Network Mechanisms that Drive the Benefits of Collaboration in Music.
2. Cultural Ties in American Sociology

Sports

1. A Shame of Inches: Teams with Black Head Coaches are Penalized more in Division 1 College Football.
2. Do Status Characteristic-Based Stereotypes Influence Opportunities in Monoracial Settings? The Case of the National Hockey League
3. Athlete activism and the role of personal and professional positionality: The case of Naomi Osaka
4. The White House’s Response to Black Athletes’ Protests: Critically Analyzing Social Processes Between Leadership in Sports and Government.

Other Publications

1. Pandemic Job Separation and Psychological Distress: Modeling Chains of Adversity.

Papers in the Pipeline

1. The Gender of Family Social Capital: Parental Investment into Adolescent Career Building
2. Bonding Ties That Get Ahead: Family Social Capital and Early Career Outcomes.
3. The Ties that Rhyme: Duality in Symbolic and Structural Networks of Grime Music.
4. Collaborating with Competitors: Career Success Dilution Due to Over-affiliation