Welcome!

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University.

I work on challenges that real-world data create for causal inference, in both observational and experimental settings. I also do research on the politics of the criminal legal system.

I received my PhD in political science from Yale in 2025. I earned an MA in statistics while studying for the PhD. My dissertation addressed three challenges in applied quantitative methodology: (1) small-sample problems for difference-in-differences research on U.S. state-level policy, especially statistical power and nonparametric solutions for coverage issues; (2) how to induce emotions in experiments so that we can credibly estimate the impacts of emotions on policy attitudes; and (3) how concerns about trauma and retraumatization can usefully inform empirical research with human participants. My dissertation was advised by Fredrik Sävje.

Prior to coming to Yale, I received a BA and MSW from Columbia.