I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University. I received my PhD in Political Science from Stanford University in 2025. My research lies at the intersection of elections, campaign finance, participation, and representation within American states and municipalities. Methodologically, my research frequently involves the collection and processing of administrative data in tandem with careful descriptive work and causal inference. My dissertation is about campaign finance in the United States, and my work has been published in the American Political Science Review, Science Advances, and Election Law Journal.
I completed my BS in Economics and Statistics and BA in Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Before pursing a PhD, I worked in actuarial consulting. In my spare time, I can be found exploring the American West, rock climbing, cooking with a very vague sense of a recipe, and quoting zingers from early seasons of The Simpsons.
I can be reached at [firstname] @tamu.edu.
Working Papers
Darker Blue: How Small Donors Drive Congressional Polarization
Buying Followers: The Political Consequences of the Twitter Acquisition. With Theo Serlin [OSF]
Long Ballots Reduce Voter Turnout [OSF]
Published Papers
Campaign Finance Vouchers Do Not Expand the Diversity of Donors: Evidence from Seattle. American Political Science Review (2025)
Are Dead People Voting by Mail: Evidence from Washington State Administrative Data. With Jennifer Wu, Hanna Folsz, Sandy Handan-Nader, Andrew Myers, Toby Nowacki, Daniel M. Thompson, Jesse Yoder, Andrew B. Hall. Election Law Journal (2025)
How Did Absentee Voting Affect the 2020 U.S. Election? With Jesse Yoder, Sandy Handan-Nader, Andrew Myers, Toby Nowacki, Daniel M. Thompson, Jennifer Wu, Andrew B. Hall. Science Advances 7.52 (2021)