I'm an Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and a Faculty Fellow with the Center for Urban and Regional Studies.

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My first book, Hustle and Gig: Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy (University of California Press) was released in March 2019. 

 

I'm currently working on two mixed methods research projects:

• Work in the Time of COVID-19, previously funded by an NSF RAPID Response grant, currently funded by the Russell Sage Foundation, to study the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on precarious and gig workers in New York City, and

• After the Hustle, funded through a Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation inaugural Knowledge Challenge grant, examining the impact of high-status gig work and sudden platform closings on gig economy entrepreneurs.

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