Profile

PhD, Carnegie Mellon, 2006. Voting behavior, legislative institutions, electoral systems, methodology, and formal theory. Current research includes projects on candidate positioning, economic voting, ideal point estimation, and political advertising. Teaches courses in American politics and political methodology.

Courses taught

• PSCI 200 Data Analysis I
• PSCI 203 Survey Research Methods
• PSCI 213 The U.S. Congress
• PSCI 319 American Legislative Institutions
• PSCI 404 The Art and Practice of Data Analysis
• PSCI 405 Causal Inference
• PSCI 507 Computational Methods
• PSCI 509 Advanced Topics in Methods II
• PSCI 523 American Politics Field Seminar