I am an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington, co-director of the Scholars Strategy Network Northwest (SSN-NW), and a faculty affiliate of the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE), the West Coast Poverty Center (WCPC) and the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies.  I received my Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University in 2007.   My research and teaching focuses on the political and economic determinants of inequality in the United States and other advanced democracies.

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New book:

• Published "The Supreme Court Did Not Just Kill Public Sector Unions," Politico Magazine, June 30, 2014.
  
• Interviewed by Steven Greenhouse for the story, "Fast Food Protests Spread Overseas," New York Times, May 15, 2014, p. B1.
• Interviewed by Peter Nicholas for the story, "Democrat in Wisconsin Steers Clear of Union Fight," Wall Street Journal, April 29th, 2014, p. A4.
• What Unions No Longer Do featured on Talking Points Memo's Book Club, March 17-21, 2014.
  
• Appeared on MSNBC's The Cycle to discuss my book, January 30, 2014.
  

• My article with Meredith Kleykamp, "Organized Labor and Racial Wage Inequality in the United States," is the 2013 winner of the Distinguished Scholarly Article Award from the Labor and Labor Movements section of the American Sociological Association (ASA).

• Co-winner of the 2013 John T. Dunlop Scholar Award from the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA).