I am trained as a life course sociologist and have deep expertise in IPUMS data and infrastructure. I currently serve as Director of the Life Course Center (LCC), providing leadership, guidance, oversight, and coordination of LCC activities. I also serve on the IPUMS leadership team, contributing oversight and strategic direction for the US Microdata Collection.
My research interests are at the intersection of gender, work and family, time use, and well-being across the life course. My current projects include a highly interdisciplinary effort to examine the effects of extreme temperatures on time use across the life course and variation by sociodemographic characteristics; the long-term implications of the pandemic for population behavior across the life course (e.g., health-related time use, couples’ shared time); variation by gender, age, and family structure in grandparent well-being and time investments in co-resident grandchildren; and the promise and peril of using the American Time Use Survey to study sleep.