I am an Associate Professor of Sociology at University of California, Santa Barbara.

My research analyzes decision-making, valuation, and creativity in cultural fields. In Bound by Creativity (University of Chicago Press, 2021), I examine how contemporary artists make creative decisions under extreme uncertainty about what constitutes good art. My current book project, Performance Anxiety (under advance contract with Princeton University Press), draws on my ethnography of the Los Angeles pornography and adult content creation (OnlyFans) industry to explore how industry members navigate acceptable sexual interactions in the production process and how digital platforms shape these risky interactions.

Areas of specialization: Culture, markets, valuation, gender and sexuality, theory, ethnography.