My book, The Price of Justice: Money and the Limits of Sexual Violence Lawsuits (University of California Press, 2026), shows how the civil legal system's insistence that money is the remedy for harm shapes whether sexual violence victims can file, win, and benefit from lawsuits. The book extends my earlier fieldwork in a rape crisis center, where I examined how activists, nonprofit professionals, healthcare providers, and police navigate contradictory ideas about gender-based violence as they work to support victims.
My current research examines how professionals across three institutional fields—healthcare, the criminal legal system, and schools—respond to young people's changing sexual behaviors. A second line of research investigates how social movements travel across national borders, focusing on queer ballroom scenes in Europe.
My work appears in Criminology, Law & Society Review, Social Problems, and Theory and Society, among other venues. I received my Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Southern California.