About Me

Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Iowa. I received my PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2024, my M.A. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2021, and my B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Michigan in 2019.

My primary research agenda focuses on the strategic behavior of congressional candidates and members of Congress with a methodological focus on measurement and text as data. In ongoing projects, I seek to measure the policy positioning of congressional candidates from campaign website text, both at the aggregate level and in individual policy areas. Using these measurements, I am interested in explaining changes in candidate positioning and the broader implications of these positions for election and legislative outcomes.