Welcome! I am Nanum, a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Sociology and Princeton University’s Office of Population Research. I received my Ph.D. in Sociology and M.S. in Statistics from UCLA, an M.P.P. from the University of Tokyo, and a B.A. in Sociology from Ewha Womans University.

I study life-course inequality, with a focus on how institutions shape unequal pathways in education, work, and family life over time. My research combines demographic and sociological perspectives with computational and causal methods to study how educational experiences, employment trajectories, and family transitions interact with broader institutional and economic changes to produce social inequality. I am particularly interested in developing new ways to measure life-course processes and understand how opportunities and risks accumulate across individuals and groups.

My work is forthcoming in Demography and has appeared in Social Science Research, the Journal of Marriage and Family, and the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. My research has been recognized with the 2026 Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award from the ASA Mathematical Sociology Section, selection for the 2025 Rising Stars in Data Science workshop, and the Kwanjeong Overseas Scholarship, among other honors.