Welcome!
I am a political scientist conducting research on the ways people engage with politics and government, and how to improve the quality of that engagement. I study American political communication, focusing on deliberation, political discussion, and political psychology. I have additional research interests in state and local politics, and women and politics. I also study political methodology, with my experience and training focused on experiments and social network analysis. My work has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Experimental Political Science, and PS: Political Science and Politics.
I am co-director of the Nevada Election Survey Project, which conducts original surveys of Nevadans about their political and policy views.
I am a Faculty Fellow with The Educational Network for Active Civic Transformation (ENACT). In this role, I teach students how to effectively lobby their state legislators on policies currently under consideration.
I am Emeritus Organizer of the Junior Americanist Workshop Series (JAWS). This virtual workshop, which began during the COVID-19 pandemic, provides junior scholars of American politics an opportunity to receive feedback on their work from top scholars in their fields.
Education
PhD, Political Science, University of Colorado, 2019
MPA, University of New Hampshire, 2011
BA, Political Science, Keene State College, 2009