I study how society and medicine shape one another, especially through technology and markets. I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Yale University and author of the award-winning book Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards. My current book project, Weighing Inequality, offers a portrait of how new drugs for weight loss, known as Ozempic or GLP-1s, are changing health and healthcare in the U.S. Under advance contract with the University of California Press, the book offers a portrait of GLP-1s as a clinical, commercial, and cultural phenomenon.

I also collaborate with computer scientists, engineers, clinicians, and other social scientists on research about AI and health, computer graphics, and wearables. I am working on a third, co-authored book that outlines a social and historical framework for understanding AI in medicine (under advance contract, Cambridge University Press). My research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Social Science Research Council. My work has appeared in Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FaccT), Social Science & Medicine, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Poetics and, occasionally, featured in media reports (e.g., Mother Jones, the Washington Post, Folha de São Paulo, Deutsche Welle, and Göteborgs-Posten).

I received my PhD in sociology from Northwestern University. For more information, see my CV, Bluesky, or LinkedIn.