I am a political sociologist who studies knowledge, power, and inequality in comparative perspective. I have three main areas of research. First, I investigate the critical role that policy knowledge plays in shaping how states design, implement, and evaluate social policies. Second, I examine the enduring effects that state institutions have on the reproduction of inequalities. Third, I focus on racial inequality as both an ideological construction and a realm of action. Across all my research, I draw on a wide array of methods, from in-depth interviews and archival work to statistical analysis of longitudinal national surveys