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Welcome!
I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford (2024-25) and will be an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Reed College (2025-). I received my PhD in Political Science from MIT in 2024. My research focuses on political behavior, interracial solidarity, and the carceral state in American politics. Ongoing projects on interracial solidarity include “Dilemmas of Accommodation,” which explores the barriers to deliberation and political action in racially diverse churches. My work on the carceral state includes projects on “carceral political discussion” and the impact of militarized policing on perceptions of the Black Lives Matter movement. Across my research, I use ethnographic methods, in-depth interviews, original surveys, and experiments. My research has been published in the American Political Science Review, Politics, Groups, and Identities, and is forthcoming at Perspectives on Politics. I have received several awards for my research, including best paper awards from the American Political Science Association (APSA) sections on Interpretive Methods and Qualitative and Multi-Method Research. My work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, APSA, the Institute for Humane Studies, the MIT Political Methodology Lab, and MIT GOV/LAB. 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. |