I am a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies and a Fellow at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. In 2018, I received my PhD in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and held the Marilyn Yarbrough Dissertation Fellowship at Kenyon College. My research broadly considers the relationship between ethnoracial and gender inequality, organizations, and culture. My current project engages a multi-methods analysis of 120 in-depth interviews with Michelin-starred and Michelin-recommended chefs and 1380 restaurant reviews in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City to examine how the organizational and evaluative logics of the American fine dining field reflect and reproduce broader systems of ethnoracial and gender inequality. In so doing, I consider the relationship between racial and ethnic inequality, gender inequality, and evaluation to understand how ethnoracial and gender categories inform systems of material and symbolic prestige. My work is published in Gender Issues and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management and forthcoming in Sociological Forum.
