She studies demography, culture, and inequality and writes about race, class, and gender inequality in the romantic, sexual, and family formation arenas. Recent work includes a book (Inequalities of Love: College Educated Black Women and the Barriers to Romance and Family, 2011, Duke University Press) and a co-authored paper on “Intersectionality and social explanation in social science research” (2013, DuBois Review 10(2): 349-363). In this work and in her ongoing investigation of men’s achievement, she remains committed to the strategic use of both quantitative and qualitative methods and the bridging of multiple theoretical traditions in order toidentify and improve scholarly understandings of processes of inequality-making.