Welcome! I’m Dr. H and I am a mixed-methods social scientist studying medicine, law, and organizations.

I am currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Texas Tech University. I think about the ways in which law and medicine define social problems and how institutional logics shape organizational response. I am especially interested in reproductive health and decision-making. My body of work examines the criminalization of pregnancy at the state level, and its implications on the health and well-being of pregnant people. My analysis of social policy and prenatal care utilization was recently published in SSM-Population Health. My subsequent dissertation research focused on provider occupational enactment and activism in substance-use treatment for pregnant people.

My other published work on policy-related questions may be found in Sociological Forum, American Behavioral Scientist, International Journal of Transgender Health, and LGBTQ+ Family: An Interdisciplinary Journal. For more details on my current set of skills and publications, please see my CV.

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