I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Kansas. As a medical sociologist, I use qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods to investigate how social and institutional forces shape both the provision and utilization of health services, with a focus on sexual and reproductive healthcare. 

My research combines in-depth interviews alongside administrative electronic medical records to examine how social policies, including Medicaid policy and local-level reproductive healthcare access policies, shape disparities in sexual and reproductive healthcare utilization. These mixed-methods approaches will reveal how the policy context in which women are embedded generates healthcare inequities.

I graduated from Indiana University, Bloomington with my PhD in Sociology in 2025, a MS in Applied Statistics in 2021, and a MA in Sociology in 2019. I received a BA in Mathematics and Sociology from Wake Forest University in 2018.