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Welcome!
I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Reed College. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford. I received my PhD in Political Science from MIT in 2024. I study and teach political behavior in the United States (and sometimes the United Kingdom), with particular attention to how citizens understand and navigate encounters with carceral and bureaucratic institutions. I also work on concept development and mixed methods 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 the Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics and the Lucian Pye Award for Best Doctoral Thesis in Political Science at MIT. I have also received paper awards from several APSA sections, including Political Communication, Political Psychology, Interpretive Methods, and Qualitative and Multi-Method Research. 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. |