Hi! I’m Natalie, a PhD candidate in sociology and a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow at UC Berkeley. My research centers on how we conceptualize work, with a focus on paid and unpaid activities in the home. My dissertation research uses interviews and observation to understand how households with remote workers organize the boundaries between jobs, housework, and home life spatially, temporally, and conceptually. I study remote workers’ households expansively—including partners, children, paid domestic workers, cohabiting family members, and extended networks of support—to map the organization and meanings attached to different kinds of activities in the home.

nataliep@berkeley.edu