I am a social scientist studying political representation, political behavior, and the politics of race, gender, and identity in the United States.
I work at Dartmouth College as an Associate Professor in the Department of Government, and serve on the faculty steering committee for the Program in Quantitative Social Science.
My research uses survey, experimental, and computational methods to study legislative politics and public opinion. My work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Political Behavior, Politics & Gender, Political Research Quarterly, American Politics Research, PLoS ONE, Journal of Experimental Political Science, Research & Politics, and others.
My book, How Politicians Polarize: Political Representation in an Age of Negative Partisanship (Chicago, 2025), documents the implications of an "us versus them" politics for American representative democracy. The book won the APSA Richard Fenno Prize for the best book in legislative studies, the APSA Alan Rosenthal Prize in legislative studies, and the APSA Best Book Award in Experimental Research.
I teach classes on topics in American politics and quantitative methods, and also oversee a number of collaborative undergraduate research projects. I am currently co-director of the Government Honors Program at Dartmouth.
I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Before graduate school, I worked as a community organizer in New York City. Feel free to reach out to get to know me or my work better.