My research addresses how perceptions of individual uncertainty shape’s social structure. I engage in qualitative research methods (interviews, ethnography, and content analysis) to study how people situationally respond to, and make sense of, perceptions of themselves and the groups they are a part of as uncertain in various forms, such as confused, irrational or unsettled. As an intersectional sociologist of identity and interaction, I am especially interested in studying identity categories such as race, gender and religion to illuminate how individuals reinforce, reproduce, and resist social structures which dismiss individuals with certain interests or demographics. Presently, my primary focus is on mixed-race or multiracial (used interchangeably) people, which is the focus of my dissertation, The Monoracial Imperative: "What are you?" What am I? Who are we?