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Welcome!
I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Reed College. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford (2024-25). I received my PhD in Political Science from MIT in 2024. I study American political behavior, identity politics, and the carceral state. I also work on concept development and mixed method approaches in political science. My research has been published in the American Political Science Review, Perspectives on Politics, and Politics, Groups, and Identities, and has received several awards, including the Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics, the Lucian Pye Award for Best Doctoral Thesis in Political Science at MIT, and best paper awards from APSA's Political Psychology, Political Communication, Interpretive Methods, and Qualitative and Multi-Method Research sections. I received my B.A. from UCLA, where I graduated summa cum laude with degrees in Political Science and Economics. I am a proud (and happily retired) former member of the UCLA Rowing Team, and was UCLA's Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2018. I am originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland. |