I’m an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at New York University.

I study the tools and techniques that institutional actors employ to make decisions that shape people’s access to resources, support, and justice. I am particularly interested in the social implications of technologies that affect how people are classified, scored, and evaluated.

One stream of my research examines the consequences of algorithmic risk assessments intended to help judges make decisions about bail and pretrial release. A second stream investigates how classification structures access to social benefits and support. A third stream explores how people respond to being the targets of prediction and examines public attitudes toward the use of predictive modeling to make high-stakes institutional decisions.

I received a PhD in Sociology from Princeton University. Before NYU, I was an Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame and worked at the Urban Institute and the World Bank.

My CV is available here. My Google Scholar profile is here.