I am currently a PhD Student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. I also teach in the Women's and Gender Studies program and sit on the Student Editorial Board as the Chair for the Committee on Social Media for the journal Social Problems.
My research focuses on inequality through gender, sexuality, and the body. Much of my work centers on gender and men’s experiences in feminized and female-dominated spaces like the workplace and sports. My work on men in baton twirling explores how current and former twirlers negotiated their privilege, stigma, masculinity, and sexuality in the glitz and glamorous world of baton twirling. I am also working on a project with Christina Falci on the trends in demographic characteristics of men in female-dominated occupations. We build on prior research on the “unevenness” and “stall” of occupational segregation and how institutional structures shape and are shaped by gender.
My dissertation contributes to the sociology of gender and sexualities by studying how heterosexual, cisgender American men look at other men’s bodies and account for their experiences given this taboo interaction. I believe homosociality, homophobia, conservatism, objectification, and body shaming are central to this study. I use a mixed methodological approach by combining an attitudinal survey, eye-tracking experiment, and in-depth qualitative interviews. Collectively, my research on men in sports, at work, and the consequences of homosocial interactions contributes to scholarship that examines how men create, navigate, and maintain gender and sexual difference which in turn perpetuates inequality.
My research focuses on inequality through gender, sexuality, and the body. Much of my work centers on gender and men’s experiences in feminized and female-dominated spaces like the workplace and sports. My work on men in baton twirling explores how current and former twirlers negotiated their privilege, stigma, masculinity, and sexuality in the glitz and glamorous world of baton twirling. I am also working on a project with Christina Falci on the trends in demographic characteristics of men in female-dominated occupations. We build on prior research on the “unevenness” and “stall” of occupational segregation and how institutional structures shape and are shaped by gender.
My dissertation contributes to the sociology of gender and sexualities by studying how heterosexual, cisgender American men look at other men’s bodies and account for their experiences given this taboo interaction. I believe homosociality, homophobia, conservatism, objectification, and body shaming are central to this study. I use a mixed methodological approach by combining an attitudinal survey, eye-tracking experiment, and in-depth qualitative interviews. Collectively, my research on men in sports, at work, and the consequences of homosocial interactions contributes to scholarship that examines how men create, navigate, and maintain gender and sexual difference which in turn perpetuates inequality.