Research Interests
- law and organizations; gender and sexuality; education; comparative and historical sociology; politics and social movements; multiple methods
I study gender inequality in organizations and the laws designed to reduce it. My forthcoming book (with Princeton University Press) examines the case of Title IX, the 1972 US civil rights law that prohibits sex discrimination in schools.
The first (with Professor Vida Maralani, Cornell Sociology) examines individual experiences of and institutional responses to sex discrimination in American higher education.
The second project (with Professor Elizabeth Armstrong and Professor Sandra Levitsky, Michigan Sociology) examines the causes of political backlash against US policies that seek to enhance gender equity in education. We investigate the bipartisan countermovement against enhanced protections for victims of sexual misconduct on campus under Title IX.
My research and teaching interests include law and organizations, gender and sexuality, and education.
