Welcome!

I am a fifth-year PhD candidate in political science at Yale, where I also received an MA in statistics. Beginning in fall 2025, I will be an Assistant Professor of Government at Cornell.

The primary strand of my research agenda takes up challenges in observational causal inference about policy effects. The second, closely related strand takes up challenges in the survey experimental study of policy attitudes.

In my dissertation, I study (1) small-sample problems in difference-in-differences estimation of the effects of American state law, especially statistical power and nonparametric solutions for coverage issues; (2) how to induce emotions in experiments so that we can study the impacts of emotions on policy attitudes; and (3) how concerns about trauma and retraumatization can usefully inform political science research. My dissertation is advised by Fredrik Sävje.

I hold a BA (2017) and MSW (2020) from Columbia.