I'm an Associate Professor of Sociology at Colorado State University who studies parenting, childhood, inequality, and social mobility with quantitative and computational methods. My research examines how parents invest in their children--what they do, why they do it, differences across social groups and contexts, change over time, and how this shapes children’s development and long-term adult outcomes. In this work, I consider the broader social and economic contexts in which families are embedded and how, together with social and demographic factors, they shape both parents’ decisions and children’s opportunities. Beyond this, I have published multiple papers on the effects of income inequality on family decision making, financial satisfaction, and social trust; the role of religion and spirituality in how people connect to and fit within society; the challenges of survey reliability and retrospective measurement; and even (long ago!) physics. I teach graduate and undergraduate courses on research design and quantitative methods, and I currently serve as the Director of Graduate Studies for the department. More details about my work can be found on my website.