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Hi! I am a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) at Vanderbilt University. I am also a faculty affiliate at Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice at Harvard Law School. In Fall 2026, I will join the Department of Political Science at Vanderbilt University as an Assistant Professor.
My research specializes in racial politics and representation, with a focus on candidate emergence and local governments in the U.S. I also develop and apply new methods to measurement, experimentation, and external validity.
My work has been published or is forthcoming in journals including American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, and Nature: Scientific Data. My work has also been recognized with the Emerging Scholar Award by the APSA Civic Engagement Section and the Best Paper Award by the APSA Experimental Research Section.
Before Vanderbilt, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University and received my PhD from Columbia University.