I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah. Previously, I was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research at Michigan State University. I received my PhD in political science from Emory University in 2020. My research focuses on public policy and political institutions, lobbying, Congress, media and politics, health policy, policing and criminal justice policy, political methodology and computational social science.
My research and/or writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, New York Magazine, USA Today, NPR, CNBC, Newsweek, Vox, MSNBC, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Journal of Politics [2] the American Political Science Review, Public Administration Review and other academic outlets. I am also the director of the Policing Accountability and Police Evaluation Research Lab at the University of Utah, funded by the National Institute of Justice.
Prior to graduate school, I spent three years in Washington DC, first working on Capitol Hill, then as a nonprofit lobbyist, and finally in online advocacy for nonprofit organizations.
My CV is available here, and my contact information can be found here. More details about my research are listed here.
I have also published a comprehensive guide to working with congressional data in R and a series of R tutorials on various topics.