Bio

Bio

I'm a Research Assistant Professor at the Center for Science of Science and Innovation in the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, a Faculty Associate at Institute for Policy Research, and the Ryan Center on Complexity. I received a Ph.D in Political Science at the University of Michigan in 2020 in American Politics (major subfield) and Quantitative Methods (minor Subfield). I specialize in the role of information and expertise in the policymaking. My dissertation examined the conditions under which Congress uses privately provisioned information produced by outside organizations in the policymaking process. More generally, I study interest groups, Congress, the intersection of science and politics, policy making and elite political behavior using survey, text analysis and network methods. I also have ongoing research projects on congressional staff capacity, interest group ideal point estimation, lobbying firms, and text reuse detection. 

My research has been published, or is forthcoming, in American Political Science Review, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Interest Groups & Advocacy, Applied Network Science, and Research & Politics. My work has also appeared, or been featured in, Vox, The Atlantic, and Science Magazine among other popular outlets .

Prior to attending the University of Michigan, I was a research fellow at the Sunlight Foundation, and received a M.Sc. with honors in the social science of the internet at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford. I received a B.A. with high honors from the College of Social Studies at Wesleyan University.