I'm a mixed methods researcher and a scholar of religion and family. I am especially interested in how individual beliefs interact with the policies of religious organizations to influence health and well-being. My master’s thesis uses data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health to examine the reciprocal relationships between religious service attendance and depressive symptoms across the life course. As a Wagoner Foreign Study Fellow, I interviewed Latter-day Saint women in Ireland on their faith and experiences as members of the LDS Church and the church’s influence on their lives.
As a Graduate Teaching Fellow at UNC, I teach undergraduate courses in Sociology of Religion and Sociology of Mental Health and Illness.
