About me

I am a sociologist and an Associate Professor at the London School of Economics (Dept of Methodology). My research primarily draws on qualitative methods using interviews, observations, and textual data. The key question animating my research is: How do economic risk and uncertainty permeate and shape people’s gendered practices, subjectivities, and social relationships in the institutions of work and family? In my first book Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment (University of California Press, 2020) I zoomed in on how unemployment catalyses the gendered organisation of family life. In ongoing work, I examine how job loss might function as a spur shaping who stays in, and who leaves, an occupation. 

My research cuts across the subfields of work, gender, family, economic sociology and emotions. I have published in journals like the American Sociological Review, British Journal of Sociology, Gender & Society, Journal of Marriage and Family, Work, Employment and Society. My research has received multiple awards and recognition from organisations including the American Sociological Association and the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award. My research has been featured in mainstream venues like The Atlantic, The New York Times, Financial Times, The Washington Post, Huffington Post, Quartz, and Harvard Business Review.

I am a Faculty Associate at LSE’s International Inequalities Institute and an Affiliated Scholar at Stanford’s VMWare Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab. I also currently serve as Deputy Editor for Gender & Society. I previously served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Marriage and Family and Gender & Society. I am an elected member of the Organisation, Occupations, and Work section of the American Sociological Association.