I’m a joint postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University (Sociology/Global Japan Lab) and the University of Tokyo (Tokyo College). Beginning in AY2026-27, I will join the Department of Marketing and Strategy at the Stockholm School of Economics as an Assistant Professor affiliated with the Center for Philosophies of Markets. I received my PhD in Sociology from the University of Michigan in 2023.

My research combines insights from the sociology of gender, culture, and political economy to investigate how state and market institutions organize private life. I am particularly interested in how political and economic transformations reshape everyday understandings and experiences of intimacy, family, and reproduction, and how these shifting meanings, in turn, can reproduce social inequalities.

I am currently completing my first book, Marriage Hunting: Dating Markets, Intimate Governance, and the Politics of National Decline in Japan. Based on more than two years of field research in Japan, the book examines the commercial market for dating services and its incorporation into the Japanese government’s response to population decline. You can learn more about it here.

My sole- and co-authored articles appear in Qualitative Sociology, Men and Masculinities, Signs, the American Sociological Review, and the Annual Review of Sociology. Additional information about my publications can be found under the Research tab.

My interdisciplinary research has been supported by fellowships and grants from organizations including Mellon Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and the Japan Foundation and has received awards from several learned societies, including the American Sociological Association. Please see the Awards tab for details.

I was born and raised in Poland where I first pursued a degree in Japanese Philology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In 2012, I moved to Japan, where I ultimately obtained my BA in East Asian Studies from the University of Tokyo. Since then, I have spent roughly equal amounts of time in Japan and the United States.