I’m a joint postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University and Tokyo College, the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Tokyo. I received my PhD in Sociology from the University of Michigan in August 2023.

My research seeks to understand how political and economic forces shape our private lives. Specifically, I study how individual understandings and everyday experiences of intimacy, family, and reproduction are shaped by state and market institutions, and how these institutions can fortify social boundaries and (re)produce inequalities around gender and sexuality.

I am currently completing my first book, entitled Marriage-hunting: Dating Markets, Intimate Governance and the Politics of Decline in Japan. Based on over two years of field research in Japan, this book provides an in-depth exploration of the commercial market for dating services and examines how it became a part of the Japanese government’s response to the crisis of 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. You can learn more about them under the Research tab.

My interdisciplinary research was supported by fellowships and grants from a number of organizations, such as the Mellon/ACLS, JSPS, and the Japan Foundation and was recognized with 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.