I am an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

I study how organizations and individuals engage with the concept of “diversity”, especially as it pertains to race and ethnicity. I’m interested in contestation over what diversity means, how organizations are portraying and deploying diversity claims, the value that is attributed to individuals’ “contributions to diversity”, and how social difference is considered (or not considered) during hiring and evaluation processes. Through these inquires, I aim deepen our understanding of social stratification, labor market dynamics, status hierarchies, and the politics of categorization.

One stream of my research focuses on how organizational diversity initiatives shape individuals’ labor market outcomes and careers. Another stream of research examines racial and gender inequality in markets and organizations more generally. A third line of work explores the social construction and lay understanding of “diversity” as a concept. I use a variety of quantitative methods and data sources, but have a soft spot for experiments.

I received my PhD in Sociology from Princeton University, where I was also trained in the Office of Population Research. I completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Inequality in America Initiative at Harvard University.