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. With Edwin Amenta, I am the author of Rough Draft of History: A Century of US Social Movements in the News(Princeton 2022). My work has also 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 direct the undergraduate Sociology and Management and Societies majors at Carolina, and teach introduction to sociology and the senior honor thesis course. At the graduate level, I teach graduate courses in computational social science, with a focus on collecting and analyzing text data with Python.

I enjoy the trails in Carolina North. I am mediocre at trail running, and bike racing.