Despite countless efforts to reduce inequity, it continues to persist. My research investigates how racial and gender inequity are systemically maintained by seemingly objective, neutral, and even positive features of our cultural contexts. In particular, I investigate how the foundational features of our cultural contexts – the core ideas and people that are valued, rewarded, and seen as typical or standard – uphold inequity in organizations and society.

I use a range of research methodologies (e.g., experimental manipulations, observational datasets, qualitative coding) and draw on interdisciplinary insights (e.g., psychology, sociology, U.S. history, feminist theory) to inform my theories.