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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 from MIT in 2024. My research revisits foundational concepts in political behavior—including political competence, knowledge, and discussion—by examining how citizens understand politics through welfare, criminal justice, and bureaucratic institutions. Across this work, I examine how gender, race, and inequality shape the experience and practice of democratic citizenship. A second line of research investigates how narratives shape attitudes toward immigrants and racial minorities. My research focuses primarily on the United States, with additional work in the United Kingdom. Methodologically, I work on concept development and mixed methods research, using qualitative evidence—interviews, open-ended surveys, and real-world conversational data—to refine quantitative measures of political behavior. My research has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Perspectives on Politics, and Political Behavior, among other journals. It has received 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 paper awards from the APSA Political Communication, Political Psychology, Interpretive Methods, and Qualitative and Multi-Method Research sections. I received my BA 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. I grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. |
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