Ph.D., Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin, 2015         

• Population Research Center Traineeship and NICHD Pre-doctoral Fellow
• Dissertation:  Preparing for Local Labor in a Global Economy: Local Labor Markets, Schools, and Men’s and Women’s Educational and Early Labor Market Outcomes

​          Committee: Chandra Muller (chair); Jennifer Glass; Catherine Riegle-Crumb; Kelly Raley; Ken-Hou Lin​

B.S., Sociology and American and Southern Studies (double major), Vanderbilt University, 2006​

• summa cum laude
• Phi Beta Kappa
• Honors in American and Southern Studies