I am a scholar of American political institutions, with a focus on legislative politics and public policy in state and local government. I study how organized groups, bureaucrats, and other political actors engage with governing institutions, and what their activity means for representation and democratic trust. I will be on the job market during the 2026-2027 academic year.

My current research examines the growing politicization of election policy in the United States, where rules often seen as technical matters of administration have become a source of partisan conflict. My projects trace the actors behind this shift; examine how election and voting rights reforms are implemented and with what consequences; and study how voter confidence shapes, and is shaped by, the way elections are administered. I build original datasets, develop novel applications of large language models for text analysis and measurement, and use redistricting simulations and survey experiments. My work has been published or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science, Public Opinion Quarterly, the Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy, and Scientific Data.

I am a graduate student researcher at the MIT Election Data and Science Lab and served as a visiting scholar at the University of Rochester's Democracy Center. Before MIT, I worked at Civis Analytics, in the New York State Assembly and the U.S. Senate, and on local campaigns. I graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Rochester with a B.A. in Political Science and Statistics.