recent updates & upcoming talks

• Nov 14, 2025: I gave a talk at the Carolina Population Center at UNC-Chapel Hill, from a joint project with Molly Copeland & Chris Marcum (on teens avoiding dating their friends’ exes) that I’m attempting to revive.
• Nov 11, 2025: I gave a webinar at the International Social Capital Association from our ARS piece (see below).
• Mar 17, 2025: Our (along w/ Paulina Erices-Ocampo & Miranda Lubbers) paper on reconceptualizing social capital is published (and Open Access) in the Annual Review of Sociology.
• Dec 30, 2024: A commentary (led by Dana Pasquale, with a number of other collaborators) on data sharing for networks and health data was published at Annals of Epidemiology.
• May 14, 2024: I gave a talk at Duke’s Networks & Health Workshop on modalities of gathering social network data.
• Apr 18, 2024: A recorded video tutorial on ethical considerations in network-based research is available in Sage’s Research Methods series.

about me

In January 2024, I started a new position as Professor of sociology at the University of South Carolina. Broadly, my research revolves around addressing how networks constrain or promote the diffusion of information and/or diseases through populations. This work falls into three primary buckets: health, the structure of scientific fields, and network methods. When I’m away from work, I’m likely on a bike somewhere, or hanging with my dogs (Zoë & Harley).

I came to USC after nearly a decade in the Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Colorado Denver, where I spent stints as the director of Graduate Studies, and our undergraduate programs in Public Health. There, I was also an affiliate of the Institute of Behavioral Science at CU-Boulder and had a courtesy appointment in the Mathematics/Statistics department.

Before UCD, I was an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department and affiliate of the Center on Health, Risk and Society at American University; and an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Arizona State University, where I was affiliated with the Center for Population Dynamics (sadly, now defunct) and the Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity.

Training-wise, I spent two years funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as a Health and Society Scholar (also since disbanded) at Columbia University, completed my PhD in the Department of Sociology at Ohio State University, and received my BA (Interdisciplinary Studies) from Virginia Tech.