I am a sociologist interested in cities and politics.

I defended my Ph.D. dissertation at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Helsinki, and in 2023 joined Utrecht University as an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Social Science. At UU, I participate in the Sectorplan “Social inequality and diversity.” In 2026, I will begin my ERC-funded project “Strategic Care in Activism: Mental Health Across Scales of Social Change” (Care2Act)

My work has been featured in sociological journals such as Social Problems, Sociology, City and Community, and others. In 2022, I published a co-authored book “Gains and Losses: How Protestors Win and Lose” (Oxford University Press). 

Recently, I published a new book "Private Life, Public Action" (Temple University Press, 2025).

I enjoy interviewing authors about their new books for the New Book Network podcast: check out these conversations in my NBN host profile.

You can also check out my Substack, where I write about writing on an ERC Starting Grant application, among other things.