I am a PhD Candidate at Princeton University in Comparative Politics. Broadly speaking my research focuses on parties and elections in advanced democracies, particularly the strategies that political parties take and their implications for representation and the quality of democracy. My dissertation focuses on the challenges that political parties face in providing representation to groups within their coalitions who have disparate interests and may not see each other as allies.

I have an ongoing multi-paper project with Noam Gidron and Jim Adams which focuses on expanding the research on affective polarization, or partisan dislike, which has largely been focused on American politics, to a comparative perspective. The first paper in our series won the Kellogg/Notre Dame Award for best paper presented in Comparative Politics at the 2018 Midwest Political Science Association Conference.

In line with my dissertation focus on changing party strategies, I have a project with Stephanie Rickard and Bryan Schonfeld on changing party strategies in the United Kingdom around issues of globalization, trade and the European Union. I also have an interest in the determinants of redistributive preferences, particularly at the sub-national level. My paper with Alex Kerchner on the regional determinants of redistributive preferences won the Deil S. Wright Award for the best paper presented in the field of federalism and intergovernmental relations at APSA 2018.