My research centers on the areas of medical sociology and mental health, the sociology of culture, and political sociology. My work has appeared in Social Problems, Poetics, and Administrative Science Quarterly.

My PhD dissertation explores the tension between the "sociological imagination" and the "psychological imagination" through the site of individual psychotherapy. I frame such tension within field-level debates regarding the "purpose" of therapy and the broader political trend of party polarization. My main data sources are depth interviews with 90 therapists of varied training backgrounds and 30 clients of therapy.