Mary is a quantitative sociologist and social demographer working as a Postdoctoral Researcher on Professor Jennifer Dowd’s MORTAL project. Her research focuses on the role of larger structural factors and social institutions contributing to patterns in health and mortality, and health disparities over time. Specifically, her research has two areas (1) structural determinants of health and mortality including structural racism and inequality leading to disparities, and (2) how specific institutions, such as the military, shape trajectories in health and mortality.

Mary received her PhD in Sociology and Demography with a certificate in quantitative methodology from The Pennsylvania State University in 2024. Her dissertation examined the age-period-cohort effects of military service on morbidity, cause-specific mortality, and potential explanatory factors.