Welcome! I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions at Vanderbilt University.

My research interests include American politics, political behavior, political psychology, identity politics, and race and ethnicity. Broadly, my work examines how social identities, such as race and partisanship, and identity conflict shape political and social outcomes. My work is forthcoming at the American Political Science Review.

In my book project, I investigate how individuals respond when their partisan identity comes into conflict with another salient social identity in their lives. Using the case of White Democrats—one of the largest groups who experience misalignment between their partisanship and another group identity (race)—I investigate when identity conflict is likely to arise and how individuals respond when salient identities pull them in two different directions. In other projects, I study how different racial contexts affect political attitudes and how partisan disagreement within a marriage affects the likelihood of splitting up. I employ a range of data and methods in my work, including public opinion surveys, experiments, and administrative data.

I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University in 2023, where I was a Graduate Dissertation Fellow at the Stanford Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity (CCSRE). Prior to graduate school, I worked as a research analyst at Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and a polling fellow at The Huffington Post. I graduated with honors from The College of William and Mary with a B.A. in Government and a minor in Sociology.