I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. My areas of expertise include gender, intersectionalities, families, Latina/o Sociology, social movements, and qualitative methods.

Overall, my research agenda focuses on men’s intimate lives. By intimacy, I mean physical and emotional closeness such as rapport, attachment, friendship, and care in men’s relationships with others. Fatherhood, in particular, is a point of entry into men’s intimate lives. My current book project (under contact with NYU Press) considers contemporary practices and ideologies of fatherhood among Latino men in California and reflects the intricacies of inequality in family life. This is the first systematic empirical study to analyze the social forces that shape, sustain, and undermine involved fathering for Latino men.

My work has been supported by a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at The Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University and the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Latino Studies at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I have also received recognition from the Ford Foundation and the American Sociological Association.