About Me

Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and a Computational Social Science Faculty Fellow with the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society. Additionally, I co-direct the Representation and Politics in Legislatures Lab within the Rooney Center for American Democracy.

My research centers on American political institutions, specifically the U.S. Congress, political representation, elections, and money in politics. My work has been published in outlets such as The Journal of Politics, The American Journal of Political Science, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. My Google Scholar profile can be found here.

My dissertation, Some Politics Are Still Local: Strategic Position Taking in Congress & Elections, won the American Political Science Association’s E.E. Schattschneider Award for the best dissertation on American government. This project employs text data, including an original collection of campaign platforms from candidates’ campaign websites, to investigate electoral and legislative position-taking on national versus local issues. I received my Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2022 and a B.A. in Political Science and International Affairs from the University of Georgia in 2016.