Welcome. I am an Associate Teaching Professor in the Public Adminstration and International Affairs Department at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, with a particular focus on the Policy Studies undergraduate program. Previously, I was a Professor at New College of Florida, teaching in the Political Science and Quantitative Social Science programs. I received my PhD from the University of California, Davis and my BA from Reed College.
I study how the social, political, racial, and geographic contexts in which individuals are embedded structure their policy choices, attitudes, preferences, and behavior. I teach courses on data analysis, policy, politics, and quantitative social science.
Courses: Syracuse University
Courses: New College
Substantive
Methodology
Research: Selected Papers
- "Political and Social Discussion Network Survey Items Are Not Interchangeable" (with Jack K. Belk Jr.) 2023. Journal of Experimental Political Science.
- "The crowding of social distancing: How social context and interpersonal connections affect individual responses to the coronavirus" (with Debra Leiter and Beth Vonnahme.) 2021. Social Science Quarterly.
- "Echoing Certainty in Uncertain Times: Network Partisan Agreement and the Quality of Citizen Forecasts in the 2015 Canadian Election" (with Debra Leiter and Mary Stegmaier.) 2020. Electoral Studies.
- "From Respondents to Networks: Bridging the Gap between Individuals, Discussants, and the Network in the Study of Political Discussion" (with Matthew T. Pietryka, Dan Maliniak, Patrick Miller, Ronald Rapoport, and Robert Huckfeldt.) 2018. Political Behavior.
- "Third Parties, Turnout, and Social Influence: Why Third Party Entry May Decrease Turnout in Plurality Systems" (with Debra Leiter and Joel Bremson). 2017. Proceedings of the 2017 Annual Conference of the Computational Social Science Society of the Americas.
- "Social Connectedness and Political Behavior." 2017. Research & Politics.
- "Noise, Bias, and Expertise in Political Communication Networks" (with Robert Huckfeldt and Matthew T. Pietryka). 2014. Social Networks.
See all papers and conference presentations on my research page.
Past Projects
- The Political Behavior Lab, an undergraduate research lab at New College of Florida focused on political behavior in Florida and elsewhere.