At the American Bar Foundation, he is an Affiliated Scholar and a former Graduate Research Coordinator and Project Manager of the Research Group on Legal Diversity. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern University in June 2016, and will begin as Assistant Professor of Sociology at Purdue University in August 2016. He studies crime, social control, law, inequality, organizations, and professions. His dissertation, “Policing Welfare: Investigation and Punishment in Public Assistance,” examines dedicated welfare fraud control units, a novel intersection between the worlds of public benefits and law enforcement.