I am an Associate Professor in the Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. My current research is on contemporary US social movements and the uses of media data for understanding movement processes. My work has appeared in journals such as American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Social Problems, and the Annual Review of Sociology.

I currently serve as the editor of the interdisciplinary social movements journal Mobilization, the premier journal of research specializing in social movements, protests, insurgencies, revolutions, and other forms of contentious politics. Check out our most recent issue.

I teach graduate courses in computational social science, with a focus on collecting and analyzing text data with Python. At the undergraduate level, I teach Introduction to Sociology and the capstone course for our Social and Economic Justice minor. I am also our Director of Graduate Studies and Admissions.

I enjoy trail running in Carolina North and trail racing in the mountains.