About Me

I hold a PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago (2024) and recently completed a postdoctoral appointment at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice. My research and writing explores how knowledge is organized and used to inform expert work, particularly in the medical and scientific fields.

My dissertation is a qualitative study that investigates how physicians and nurses working in Hospice and Palliative Medicine relate to their patients and interdigitate with medical experts from different specialties. In particular, I study how clinicians aid patients with chronic and life-limiting illnesses in making decisions about what kind and how much care they will receive. I am also very interested in supporting the endeavor for a more open science by creating reproducible documents with plain text software.

I also have an enduring interest in philosophy, particularly moral philosophy, philosophy of science, and metaethics. I have been particularly interested in questions of value; what makes human life valuable and worthwhile, under what conditions are those not met, and what are the implications on the status of moral agents.

I also have a cat named Bat who is very cute.