His research focuses on nontraditional undergraduates and broad-access higher educational institutions, the impact of socioeconomic inequality on college experiences and outcomes, and on the relationship between educational credentialing and the labor market. His research has been published in Sociology of Education, Research in Higher Education, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and Social Science Research, among other journals. He earned his Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2015, and worked as a Senior Researcher at the Wisconsin HOPE Lab prior to beginning employment at Shippensburg.