Welcome!

I an an Assistant Professor of Government, in political methodology, at Cornell.

The primary strand of my research agenda takes up challenges in observational causal inference about policy effects. The second, closely related strand takes up challenges in the survey experimental study of policy attitudes.

I received my PhD in political science from Yale in 2025. I also earned an MA in statistics while studying for the PhD. My dissertation addressed three challenges in applied quantitative methodology: (1) small-sample problems in difference-in-differences estimation of the effects of American state law, especially statistical power and nonparametric solutions for coverage issues; (2) how to induce emotions in experiments so that we can study the impacts of emotions on policy attitudes; and (3) how concerns about trauma and retraumatization can usefully inform empirical research with human participants. My dissertation was advised by Fredrik Sävje.

Prior to coming to Yale, I received a BA and MSW from Columbia.