About Me

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Duke University. I completed my Ph.D. in Political Science, with focuses in American Politics and Political Methodology, from the Ohio State University in June 2020. Before joining Duke, I was a postdoc and then research scientist in the Lazer Lab at Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute and a fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

My primary research agenda concerns how political elites talk about politics, democratic citizens’ attitudes and behaviors, and interactions between these phenomena. My peer-reviewed work concerning public opinion and political behavior in the United States has appeared or is accepted to appear in journals such as the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, Political Analysis, Political Behavior, Public Opinion Quarterly, Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Science Advances.

I teach courses in U.S. politics, political behavior, and political methodology.