Degrees

• BA in Sociology and minor in Statistics, University of Washington, 2014
• MA in Sociology, University of California – Los Angeles, 2017
• PhD in Sociology, University of California – Los Angeles, 2022

Fields of Study

Computational social science; Culture and cognition; Health and illness; Stigma; Media; Computational Text Analysis

Publications

See Google Scholar profile for latest publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3mGPNCMAAAAJ&hl=en

Awards & Grants

• Best Dissertation-in-Progress Award from the American Sociological Association (ASA) Section on Mathematical Sociology, 2021
• Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA Graduate Divison, 2021-2022
• Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award from the American Sociological Association (ASA) Section on Mathematical Sociology, 2020
• Graduate Summer Research Fellowship from the UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute, 2020
• Computational Social Science Summer School on Multimedia Data Travel Grant from the GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, 2019
• Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) Fellow, 2018, 2019
• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2017-2020
• Graduate Research Mentorship Year-Long Award from UCLA, 2017-2018
• Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Award from UCLA Graduate Divison, 2017 (declined)
• Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Award from UCLA Graduate Divison, 2016
• Howard B. Woolston Award for Academic Excellence from Univerrsity of Washington Dept. of Sociology, 2014
• Mary Gates Research Scholar, 2014

Advisors

Master’s Committee:

• Jacob Foster
• Abigail Saguy

Doctoral Committee:

• Jacob Foster
• Jessica Collett
• Morteza Dehghani
• Omar Lizardo