Welcome!

I am a professor at Harvard University. My research interests include law, political economy, race and ethnic politics, and statistical methods. My research has been published in journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and The Journal of Politics, and has been covered by the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Economist, National Public Radio, and other outlets.

My latest book, The Judicial Tug of War: How Lawyers, Politicians, and Ideological Incentives Shape the American Judiciary (with Adam Bonica), is available from Cambridge University Press. My first book, Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics, is available from Princeton University Press and won the 2019 William H. Riker Book Award for best book published in political economy.

At Harvard, I am the director of the Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality & Social Policy, which brings together the social sciences in the study of poverty, inequality, and economic mobility. I am also an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and the Taubman Center for State and Local Government.

You can access my Google Scholar page here. A full description of my publications and working papers is here. My CV is here. I explain some of my research interests in this video.