Science is a team sport. My role in research teams is to figure out how to take an existing line of research and turn it into an intervention. As such, my research domains are very diverse. What holds these projects together is the hope of creating knowledge and tools that can solve real problems. For links to publications, see my CV
The National Internet Observatory provides researchers with data on what Americans are seeing and doing online. Started in 2021 with a $15 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the NIO has become a critical infrastructure for understanding American life and studying the emergence and development of AI.
Since April 2020, the Covid States project, led by faculty at Northeastern, Harvard, and Rutgers has been fielding surveys representative of all 50 states montoring the pandemic as well as government and public's reaction to it. My role on the project is validating the survey's representativeness and establishing a new standard for survey reporting. The goal is to change how scientists and journalists evaluate the extent to which a survey is representative or not.
Despite women’s increasing participation in the paid labor force and the growing outsourcing of household chores, American women consistently do more housework than men. This inequality restricts women’s ability to work for pay and lowers their earnings, compromises women’s sleep and leisure time, and lowers women’s perceptions of relationship quality. While many scholars study inequality, none that we know of have sought to fix it. In this project, we look to identify interventions that increase equality within couples by increasing couples’ belief that they can share the work equally and improve the actual balance of housework. Working with newly cohabiting couples, we develop prototypes for interventions and field them with couples to see how well they work.