Welcome!

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

I work on challenges that real-world heterogeneity poses for causal inference. One strand of my research program focuses on observational causal inference, especially modern difference-in-differences. The other, closely related strand focuses on design and ethics for experiments. My substantive interests are in American politics and policy, especially the criminal legal system.

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 for difference-in-differences research on U.S. state-level policy, especially statistical power and nonparametric solutions for coverage issues; (2) how to induce emotions in experiments so that we can credibly estimate 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.