I am an Associate Professor of Sociology at UCSB, in Santa Barbara, CA. Formerly, I was an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana with a joint appointment in the Department of Gender Studies. I earned a BA in Economics at Smith College, a PhD in Sociology at Cornell University, and was a Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar at Columbia University. My main research and teaching areas are gender, work, health, reproduction, social psychology, and social inequality.