I am an Assistant Professor of Management and Organization at Boston College's Carroll School of Management. As an ethnographer and field researcher, my interests focus on how people experience and navigate the tensions of their occupations and professions within the context of their workplace organizations. I have studied how these experiences shape workplace gender inequality, surveillance dynamics, organizational control, professional legitimacy, and technological reform. Specializing in utilizing in-depth, inductive field studies to theorize novel, hidden, and nuanced processes on these topics, I have conducted studies of airport screeners at the Transportation Security Administration, consultants at a strategy consultancy, university career advisers in business schools, teachers at a Finnish school, and graphic facilitators.
My scholarly research is published, forthcoming, or conditionally accepted in Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and the Academy of Management Annals. I also have written work appearing in the Harvard Business Review, Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, Work and Occupations, and the Industrial and Labor Relations Review. This research has received distinctions such as the ASQ Award for Scholarly Contribution, the Academy of Management’s Saroj Parasuraman Award for outstanding publication on gender and diversity, the Best Article Award from the Academy of Management Annals, and the Academy of Management’s ONE-SIM Outreach Award. My research has been mentioned in media outlets such as The Atlantic, Axios, and Scientific American, as well as in popular books like Bob Sutton’s The Asshole Survival Guide and podcasts like Adam Grant’s WorkLife.
I have received a “Teaching Star” distinction from the Dean and teaching committee at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management for outstanding teaching, based on having received the most favorable evaluations from students, while also challenging them intellectually. I was also named one of the Poets&Quants Top 50 Undergraduate Professors Of 2020.
In terms of professional service, I serve on the Editorial Review Boards for Administrative, Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Review, and Organization Science.
I received my Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Harvard Business School and Harvard University, where I received the Wyss Award for excellence in research. I also earned a master’s degree in Sociology from Harvard University. Before entering graduate school, I worked in the management and strategy consulting industry at the firm Innosight. I earned my bachelor’s degree in social anthropology and a secondary field in psychology from Harvard College, graduating summa cum laude and as a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society since my junior year of college. During college, I conducted ethnographic research on the cultural values of street dancers in New England and Miami, and the undergraduate thesis I wrote on this topic was awarded a Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for outstanding thesis research.