I'm an Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and a Faculty Fellow with the Center for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS). I was a 2023-24 Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar.

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My third book, Trapped: Gig Work's Hidden Grip on the American Worker, is under contract with the University of California Press and will be out in 2027.

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My most recent book, Side Hustle Safety Net: How Vulnerable Workers Survive Precarious Times, was released by the University of California Press in October 2023.

 

My first book, Hustle and Gig: Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy (UCPress) 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 and Russell Sage Foundation Future of Work grant, currently funded by my second NSF grant, 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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