In my work on science, education, and technology, I study the social contexts of knowledge and knowledge-making
The unstable social order of the 4th-grade classroom mediated by gender as practice
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Publications
How value judgments and uncertainty in peer review shape scientific advance
American Sociological Review (2025)
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“You Cannot Sound Like GPT”: Signs of language discrimination and resistance in computer science publishing
ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency - FAccT (2025)
⭑ Best Paper FAccT 2025
Can large language models provide useful feedback on research papers? A large-scale empirical analysis
New England Journal of Medicine Artificial Intelligence (2024)
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Women scholars and the institutionalization of Feminist, Gender, Sex, and Sexuality (FGSS) research in Comparative Education, 1957–2010
Comparative Education Review (2024)
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Systematic analysis of 32K model cards characterizes documentation practice in AI engineering
Nature Machine Intelligence (2024)
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How new ideas diffuse in science
American Sociological Review (2023)
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Causal matching with text embeddings: A case study in estimating the causal effects of peer review policies.
Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2023)
Gendered Knowledge in Fields and Academic Careers. Research Policy (2022)
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Social reproduction and sex in German primary schools.
Compare: Journal of Comparative and International Education (2017)
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Drafts
Desk Rejected: How editors decide which scientific manuscripts merit full peer review
How random is the review outcome? A systematic study of the impact of external factors on eLife peer review.
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In my macro historical work, I study the cultural authority of science and the Western nation-state project.
Semantic Network of the UK Parliamentary Discourse Showing the Political Problematique of State Schooling (1851–1885)
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Publications
The making of the modern state: Social scientization and education legislation in the United Kingdom, 1800–1914 European Journal of Sociology (2023)
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Visions of deliverance: Social science, rationalization, and the expanded purposiveness of schooling in the UK Parliament, 1803–1914
Social Science History (2023)
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Social scientization and the rise of the schooling state in UK parliamentary discourse, 1803–1909
Social Science History (2022)
⭑ Best Grad. Paper (Hon. Mention), Social Science History Association
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Creating the canon: The meaning and effects of textbooks and curricula
Education and Society (University of California Press) (2017)
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Drafts
The university: exalted institution and ruined organization
The epistemic origins of the nation-state
The Making of Mr. Gradgrind: Social Science and the Rationalization of Schooling in Parliament, 1803–1914