I am a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research at Rutgers University.  In 2009, I received my PhD in sociology from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst.  I live in Arlington, Virginia.

My interests include identity and the self, the sociology of emotions, medical sociology, culture, and qualitative methodology.  My CV can be found here.

I am currently completing a book manuscript based on my dissertation.  My research connects the financial and regulatory structure of health care in the United States to the emotional lives of nursing home care workers.  Based on comparative, ethnographic research in two nursing homes - one part of a large, for-profit chain, the other part of a small, non-profit chain - my dissertation examined how nursing home care workers grapple with tensions between meeting organizational demands in an increasingly market driven field and providing compassionate

care in times of personal crisis.