I study the consequences of context on political and civic behavior. My research shows that who and what we encounter as we go about our everyday lives affects the policies we support and how we interact with government. Specializing in causal inference, field experiments, and spatial/geographic analysis, I develop new methodological approaches to the study of social and physical context.
I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Merced. I received my PhD from the Harvard University Department of Government in 2017, and am an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard. I earned an MPA from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
My research has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and has been covered in the media.