My research focuses on three main themes: the potential and limits of intergroup solidarity, the consequences of citizen interactions with the carceral state, and the complementarities between ethnographic and statistical methods.
Intergroup Solidarity
"Dilemmas of Accommodation: Diverse Associations and the Avoidance of Racial Difference"
"The "Content" of Intergroup Contact: Lessons from the Denton Women's Interracial Fellowship," Politics, Groups, and Identities, 2024, 1–19.
"White Guilt and Attitudes Towards Racialized Taxation" (In progress)
- Hayward R. Alker Award for the best student paper, Section on Interpretive Methodologies and Methods, APSA, 2024
- Kendra Koivu Award for the best paper, Section on Qualitative and Multi-Method Research, APSA, 2023
- Selected for the University College London Centre on US Politics Series in American Politics, 2023
- Supported by an NSF/APSA Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2021
"The "Content" of Intergroup Contact: Lessons from the Denton Women's Interracial Fellowship," Politics, Groups, and Identities, 2024, 1–19.
"White Guilt and Attitudes Towards Racialized Taxation" (In progress)
Carceral State
"How Police Behavior Shapes Perceptions of Protests: Evidence from Black Lives Matter," with Ariel White and Laurel Eckhouse (Conditionally accepted at Perspectives on Politics)
"The Prevalence and Political Correlates of Carceral Political Discussion" (Working paper)
“Carceral Political Discussion: Gender, Race, and Punitive Experiences of Government Welfare Programs” (In Progress)
"The Prevalence and Political Correlates of Carceral Political Discussion" (Working paper)
“Carceral Political Discussion: Gender, Race, and Punitive Experiences of Government Welfare Programs” (In Progress)
Ethnographic and Statistical Methods
"The Politics of Sight: Revisiting Timothy Pachirat’s Every Twelve Seconds," American Political Science Review, 2022, 116(3):1025-1037, with Bernardo Zacka
"Combining Interpretivist & Positivist Approaches to Social Science Research" with Richard Nielsen (Working paper)
"The Fundamental Problem of Interpretive Inference" with Richard Nielsen (Working paper)
- Kendra Koivu Award for the best paper, section on Qualitative and Multi-Method Research, APSA, 2022
"Combining Interpretivist & Positivist Approaches to Social Science Research" with Richard Nielsen (Working paper)
"The Fundamental Problem of Interpretive Inference" with Richard Nielsen (Working paper)