A sociologist by training, I am currently serving as an Assistant Professor of Global Health at Duke Kunshan University. My educational background includes a B.A. from the University of Arizona (2009, magna cum laude), an M.A. from the University of Bucharest (2011), and a Ph.D. from the University of Hong Kong (2016). I have been honored to be a fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy since 2020.

My ethnographic research examines the social categorization of patients, the triage decision-making practices, the economy of favors in medical settings, and the access to health care services by vulnerable populations. My work has made its way to Social Science & Medicine, Sociology of Health & Illness, Time & Society, and BMC Public Health.

In 2023, I celebrated the publication of my first book, The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients: An Ethnography of Triage Work in Romania, by Lexington Books.

Before embarking on my journey at Duke Kunshan University, I honed my skills as a Lecturer in the Department of Health and Environmental Sciences at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University from 2017 to 2022.