About Me
I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Demography at the University of Texas - San Antonio. My research examines how social relationships shape health and caregiving across the life course, with particular attention to aging, health disparities, social isolation, family relationships, and care networks.
My work has been published in leading journals such as Social Forces, Demography, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Journal of Marriage and Family, and The Gerontologist. I have received research support from multiple institutions and was selected as a 2026 Butler-Williams Scholar by the National Institute on Aging.
You can find my CV here.
News
- August 2026 — Selected as a 2026 Butler-Williams Scholar by the National Institute on Aging.
- June 2026 — Published Sexual Orientation and Social Isolation from Early Adulthood to Early Midlife in the June issue of Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
- May 2026 — Invited to present at the Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies Webinar.
- April 2026 — Published How Early Migration Shapes Chronic Disease Progression in Later Life: Longitudinal Evidence from Rural China in the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences.
- March 2026 — Published Social Isolation and Cognitive Functioning Trajectories from Midlife to Later Life in Four High- and Middle-Income Countries in Longitudinal and Life Course Studies.
- January 2026 — Contributed Chapter 29 Social Relationships, Physical Health, and Mortality to the De Gruyter Handbook of Social Epidemiology, the first handbook of social epidemiology.
- December 2025 — Invited to give a talk at the NHATS/NSOC Webinar Series.
- August 2025 — Received the Outstanding Publication Award from the ASA Section on Aging & the Life Course for Parental Death Across the Life Course and Health in Later Life: Racial/Ethnic Disadvantage in the U.S. (Social Forces, 2023).