THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

PhD., Sociology

Mixed-methods dissertation looking at the health behavior and outcomes of foreign-born populations.
Quantitative analysis of a database constructed from 7 years of individual-level vital statistics and 5-year American Community Survey estimates for 6 cities at the census tract level using STATA software
Qualitative analysis using over 25 hours of a primary data collection effort involving interviews and in-depth observation and NVIVO software
Completed a Graduate Interdisciplinary Study in Demography
Awarded research funding through Ohio State University Mobility Project Grant ($1000) and Ohio State University Department of Sociology Silverman Grant ($600)
Recipient of the Institution for Population Research Summer Dissertation Fellowship (2018)

“Destined for Discrimination: Can Immigration Status Offset the Effects of Racial Segregation?”
Quantitative data analysis using a constructed dataset of individual level vital statistics and 5-year American Community Survey estimates for 4 metropolitan areas at the census tract level with STATA software
Ran multilevel linear regression models to capture individuals nested within neighborhoods
Recipient of University Graduate Fellowship for 2014-2015 academic year
Finalist in the Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Edward F. Hayes Research Forum, 2017

Recipient of the Morrill Prominence Scholarship, National Buckeye Scholarship, and Distinguished Merit Scholarship