Articles:
“We Fly Congress: Market Actions as Corporate Political Activity in the U.S. Airline Industry” (with Min-Seok Pang and Russell Funk). Organization Science, 2023. Working paper available at SocArXiv.
“‘Controlling for What?’ Movements, Measures, and Meanings in the U.S. Gender Wage Gap Debate.” History of Political Economy, 2022. Working paper available at SocArXiv.
“The Person of the Category: The Pricing of Risk and the Politics of Classification in Insurance and Credit” (with Greta Krippner). Theory and Society, 2022.
“Rediscovering the 1%: Knowledge Infrastructures and the Stylized Facts of Inequality.” American Journal of Sociology, 2021. SocArXiv version here. Covered in Bloomberg View, Why Economists Took So Long to Focus on Inequality.
“When Affirmative Action Disappears: Unexpected Patterns in Student Enrollments at Selective U.S. Institutions, 1990-2016” (with prabhdeep singh kehal and Ellen Berrey). Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 2021. SocArXiv version here.
“Toward an Economic Sociology of Race” (with Laura Garbes). Socio-Economic Review, 2021. SocArXiv version here.
“Transitional Temporality.” Sociological Theory, 2021. SocArXiv version here.
“Standardizing Biases: Selection Devices and the Quantification of Race” (with Emily Adlin Bosk). Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 2020. SocArXiv version here.
“The Partial Deinstitutionalization of Affirmative Action in U.S. Higher Education, 1988 to 2014” (with Ellen Berrey), Sociological Science, 2017. Covered in Slate, the New Yorker, and the Boston Globe.
“Beyond Nonmarket Strategy: Market Actions as Corporate Political Activity” (with Russell Funk), Academy of Management Review, 2017.
“Stylized Facts in the Social Sciences”, Sociological Science, 2016.
“Dequantifying Diversity: Affirmative Action and Admissions at the University of Michigan” (with Ellen Berrey & Fiona Rose-Greenland), Theory & Society, 2016. SocArXiv version here.
“Derivatives and Deregulation: Financial Innovation and the Demise of Glass–Steagall” (with Russell Funk), Administrative Science Quarterly, 2014. SocArXiv version here.
“Formation Stories and Causality in Sociology” (with Isaac Reed), Sociological Theory, 2014. SocArXiv working paper here.
“Do economists make policies? On the political effects of economics” (with Elizabeth Popp Berman), Socio-Economic Review, 2014.
“The Modern Corporation as Social Construction” (with Mark Mizruchi), Seattle Law Review, 2010.
Work in Progress:
“On the Authority of the Market” (with Laura Adler). Working paper available at SocArXiv.
“Embedded in Whiteness: How the New Economic Sociology Came to Ignore Race & Racism” (with Laura Garbes). Working paper available at SocArXiv.
I am writing a book tentatively titled Unequal Knowledge: The Stylized Facts of Inequality (under contract with Columbia University Press). The book covers the history of the gender wage gap, the racial wealth gap, and the rise of “the 1%”.
My dissertation, Inventing the Economy, Or: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the GDP, examined the construction of the economy as a socio-technical object and is available here. This research was funded by the National Science Foundation (Award #1229894) and the Rackham Graduate School at the University of Michigan.