I'm a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. I will be joining the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas-Austin as an Assistant Professor in the fall of 2013. My dissertation examines the connection between the rise of finance and growing income inequality in the United States. My analysis shows that the rise of finance is associated with declining labor's share of income, growing executive compensation, widening earnings dispersion, and slow employment growth. Committee: Donald Tomaskovic-Devey [Chair], Joya Misra, Andrew Papachristos, and Arindrajit Dube [Economics]. | I'm broadly interested in inequality, finance, organization, race and ethnicity, and methodology. I'm particularly attracted to data science and statistical graphics. My other projects explore how race, gender, and education jointly shape the interaction among heterosexual and same-sex internet daters; how race and ethnicity are perceived; the gap between stylized and diary-based measures of time use; and the labor market and residential outcomes of Hispanic immigrants. |