Starting in September 2025, I will join the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University as a Postdoctoral Fellow. I received my PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley in 2025.
My research is broadly focused on representation, local political economy, and political geography. Specifically, I study who holds power in American local governments and how that drives policymaking. My current work centers on municipal officials’ embeddedness in their communities and the implications for policy outcomes, particularly relating to land use. I am especially interested in these dynamics in small-town and rural America. Another branch of my research investigates attitudes about descriptive representation at the national level. My work uses both descriptive and causal methods, including but not limited to causal inference designs for observational data, text analysis, and original surveys and survey experiments. My research is published in the Journal of Politics and the Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy.
Prior to graduate school, I was a research associate in the Political Science department at MIT, working with scholars in both American and Comparative politics. I hold a B.A. in Political Science, Philosophy, and German from Tufts University.