I am an assistant professor of sociology at Duke and I study the social foundations that make and break science. This includes the norms, arguments, and pluralism that make it both epistemically diverse and legit. I work with scientific and legislative text using natural language processing, machine learning, and generative AI. My work is comparative and longitudinal, micro and macro.

Right now, I'm working on these themes in science/knowledge:

(1) pluralism and innovation (peer review + patents)
(2) cultural authority (nation-state structures)

(( When I'm not working, my 🧔 and 🐕‍🦺 [pic] keep me busy from the AT to the PCT 🏔️🥾🐾 ))