About Me

I am an Assistant Professor at Florida Atlantic University. I completed my doctorate in Sociology at Indiana University, where I also obtained an MS in Applied Statistics. My research interests include social networks, caregiving, aging & disability, mental health, culture, and quantitative methods.

I previously presented research on social networks and Alzheimer's disease at the Duke Social Networks & Health Workshop. A video of that presentation is available on YouTube, and embedded below. My work has been published in Alzheimer's & Dementia, The Gerontologist, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Sociology of Health and Illness, Network Science, and other journals. You can read more about my current research here.

I am a member of the FAU I-HEALTH Human Health and Dementia Research Focus Group as well as the FAU Biostatistics Collaborative Core. 

News

• Social networks & cognitive impairment papers: Our paper “Why the Cognitive "Fountain of Youth” May be Upstream: Pathways to Dementia Risk and Resilience through Social Connectedness" is now published in Alzheimer's & Dementia. Related, "Social Networks and Cognitive Function: An Evaluation of Social Bridging and Bonding Mechanisms" is now published in The Gerontologist.

• Impostorism paper: "Fear of Fraudulence: Graduate School Program Environments and the Impostor Phenomenon," is published in The Sociological Quarterly. The published version is here (paywall), and a pre-publication version is here.

• Recent and upcoming presentations: I presented research related to social networks and cognitive health at GSA 2023 and plan to attend GSA 2024 in Seattle to present on dementia caregiver networks. Please see the GSA online program or my CV for details.