I am currently a PhD Student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a specialization in Women's and Gender Studies and a Mixed Methods Research Graduate Certificate. 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 within gender, sexuality, and the body. I consider myself a strong qualitative researcher with growing skills in mixed methods and eye-tracking methodologies.
Much of my work centers on gender and men’s experiences in feminized and female-dominated spaces like the sports and the workplace. 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 analyzing 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, sexualities, social psychology, mixed methods, and eye-tracking by studying the disconnect between men's avoidance of other men's bodies and idealized body standards. 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.
My research focuses on inequality within gender, sexuality, and the body. I consider myself a strong qualitative researcher with growing skills in mixed methods and eye-tracking methodologies.
Much of my work centers on gender and men’s experiences in feminized and female-dominated spaces like the sports and the workplace. 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 analyzing 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, sexualities, social psychology, mixed methods, and eye-tracking by studying the disconnect between men's avoidance of other men's bodies and idealized body standards. 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.