I'm a sociologist of the body and embodiment. I study how late capitalism turns identity into embodied labor. My concept of sartorial labor names the daily work of managing how the body is dressed and read. My ethnographic research shows how that burden gets misread as a personal failing, then sold back to people as a service.

This line of work began with my dissertation, an ethnography of creative workers in mismatched jobs, and continues in my book manuscript, The Identity Gap: Clothing the Self in a Time of Manufactured Instability, now under consideration with university presses. An article on sartorial labor is under review at Fashion Theory. At the 2026 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting in New York, I presented in the Body and Embodiment section and took part in two roundtables. My next book, Embodied Self-Knowledge, treats the body as a site of knowledge.

I teach, bring my research to public audiences through talks at SF Climate Week and The Unbecoming Sessions, and conduct workshops on embodied self-knowledge.