I am an assistant professor at the University of Rochester's Department of Political Science and an affiliate with the W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy.

I completed my Ph.D. at The University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy and a post-doctoral fellowship at Vanderbilt University’s Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions.

My research studies the influence of electoral and distributive politics on the policymaking process. I am beginning to conduct research on food policy, a teaching passion of mine. Please click below to see my published and working papers.

Spring semester (2023) I am teaching Intro to U.S. Politics. Next fall I will teach a course on U.S. food policy and a graduate seminar on models of domestic political institutions. Please click below for syllabi and a complete list of courses I have offered.