About
I am an interdisciplinary sociologist with research and teaching interests in gender/sexuality, transgender studies, medical sociology, racialized histories of medicine, and feminist science and technology studies. I use qualitative and queer/feminist methods to analyze the racialized and gendered social, cultural, and historical processes that shape the politics of reproduction and family in the United States.
My dissertation, “Repro Futures: Transgender Reproductive Politics, Justice, and Time in the United States,” uses scientific narratives of the past, law and politics of the present, and interviews about the future to examine transgender reproduction and gender-affirming care using the tools of speculation and desire. In my spare time, I am a fiber artist and doll maker.
Educational Background
I am a PhD Candidate at Yale in the joint-degree program in Sociology and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Stuides. I completed my undergraduate education in liberal arts at Sarah Lawrence College in 2017. I received my Master’s degree from the Reproductive Sociology Research Group (ReproSoc) with distinction at the University of Cambridge in 2019 under the advisement of Professor Sarah Franklin, where I wrote a thesis on racialized state reproductive violence.
Publications
My Master’s thesis is now a forthcoming article in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Work from my dissertation is also forthcoming in the edited volume Seminal: Sperm/Health/Politics with NYU Press, with several articles under review. Previous work has been published in Social Science and Medicine and Population Studies.
Teaching
I teach and write about the legacies of race, gender, and sexuality in the politics of the family. I encourage my students to ask better questions, follow their curiosity, and build a critical perspective within and beyond the classroom. Course titles are available on my teaching page. I am a CRC Mellon Teaching Race Graduate Pedagogy Fellow (see more details here https://ritm.yale.edu/crc-mellon-pedagogy-fellows)
I am enrolled in the Certificate of College Teaching and Preparation Program (CCTP) at Yale and will receive an Associate Certification in College Teaching in 2025 with special training in classroom engagement across differences and accessibility.
Service and Policy Work
Outside of research, writing, and teaching, I enthusiastically engage in interdisciplinary scholarly organizing and have a demonstrated background in policy and service. I am a Health Policy Research Scholar with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, an affiliate in the Yale Research Initiative on the Histories of Sexuality, a fellow with the Yale Ethnography Hub, and co-run the WGSS Colloquium and Graduate Policy Fellows Program at Yale. I co-organized the Repro Futures pre-conference at ASA 2024 and the “Expanded Reproduction” panel at NWSA 2024.
History of Sexuality Initiative
Health Policy Research Scholars
