PhD Candidate, Yale

I am a fifth-year PhD candidate in political science at Yale University, also getting an MA in statistics. I work in political methodology, often with a policy orientation. I am on the 2024-2025 academic job market. My job market paper, “How Much Should We Trust Modern Difference-in-Differences Estimates?,” is available at osf.io/bqmws.

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 study of policy attitudes and accountability, using survey and field experiments.

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 MSSW in policy (2020) from Columbia University.