I am a Sociology PhD Candidate from New York University, , where I study politics and culture using computational approaches to text. My research brings together political sociology, cultural sociology, and China studies to understand how narratives operate as political tools and how people resist and transform them.

My dissertation, Nationalism as a Moral Project: State Narratives and Popular Boundary-Work in China, examines how nationalism in China is legitimated through moral claims. I show how the state deploys national victimhood narratives and how citizens adapt these narratives on social media to police symbolic boundaries. Alongside this work, I also study right-wing discourse in the United States, analyzing how populism and nationalism emerge in political speech and public attitudes.

My work has appeared in Sociological Methods & Research and Socius. I hold a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan and I expect my PhD in Sociology in 2026.