My current research explores essential questions that animate urban life and policy-making in small-scale multi-racial democracies: whether local governments can translate public opinion into public policy despite having a system of overlapping governing institutions, whether individuals can foster greater responsiveness and transparency among local elites, and why discriminatory institutions emerge and persistent at the local level. In addition to my substantive interests, I have methodological interests in using machine learning models for descriptive inference.

My writing and research can be found in the Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science, Political Behavior, and the Journal of Experimental Political Science. Notably, a portion of my dissertation work received the Best Graduate Student Poster Award (Applications) from the Society for Political Methodology Summer Conference in 2021. Furthermore, in 2022, I was honored with the Susan Clarke Young Scholars Award from the Urban and Local Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.

I hold a Ph.D. in Political Science from Washington University in St. Louis and completed my bachelor's and master's degrees in Political Science at Arkansas State University.