I am an Associate Professor of Sociology at University of California, Santa Barbara. For the 2023-2024 academic year, I am a member at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton.
My research analyzes judgment, valuation, and creativity in social interaction. In Bound by Creativity (University of Chicago Press, 2021), I examine how contemporary artists make creative decisions in the absence of agreed upon standards and how their participation in the art market shapes these processes. My current ethnography of the Los Angeles pornography and adult content creation industry explores how industry members navigate acceptable interactions and content in their daily work.
Areas of interest: Culture, markets, valuation, gender and sexuality, sociological theory, qualitative methods.