Welcome! I’m an assistant professor at the University of Oregon Department of Sociology. I received my Ph.D. in May 2022 from Princeton University’s Sociology Department and was previously a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Social Media and Politics (CSMaP) at New York University.

I am a political sociologist interested in the politics of media and information and their implications for social organization.

One strand of my work studies the politics of information control in authoritarian regimes, especially China. I measure the existence and amplification of state propaganda in domestic newspapers, global web-based news, and through new digital platforms like generative AI. See my recent articles on these topics with my co-authors in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Sociological Methods & Research. Replication data available here and here.

A second strand of my work is interested in the politics of popular perceptions. My recent article with Adam Goldstein in the American Journal of Sociology investigates the shifting bases of inequality perceptions in the United States and how they have evolved alongside political and economic polarization in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Replication data available here. I also have work investigating how individuals in state controlled media environments discern state manipulated articles from more independent sources of information.

Methodologically I use a range of tools, including primary document analysis, interviews, machine learning, survey experiments, and computational text analysis. I hold a BA in East Asian Studies and an MA in Regional Studies: East Asia, both from Harvard University.

You can download my cv here

Interests

• Computational social science
• Media
• Politics of information control
• Contemporary China
• Sociology of perception