Hello and welcome!
I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at The University of California, Davis. I am also a 2024-2025 Bilinski Fellow.
My research falls at the intersection of political parties, political communication, and electoral behavior in advanced industrial democracies. I am interested in a wide range of questions related to how citizens form beliefs about parties, policy, and representation, especially the influence of information, elite rhetoric, and other mass-elite linkages. To study these questions, I frequently employ survey experiments, large-N observational analyses, and text-as-data methods. During my Ph.D., I have also been involved with The Institute for Replication.
Prior to starting graduate school, I received B.A.s in Political Science and Economics at Colorado State University in 2018 and worked as a Legislative Intern at the Colorado General Assembly.
When I am not working, I love doing most things outside (especially hiking and gravel biking), reading (literary fiction and narrative non-fiction are my favorites), and watching Formula 1 (Tifosi 🏎️).
Research Interests
political parties | political communication | electoral behavior | representation | survey & experimental methods | text-as-data applications of machine learning