WELCOME

I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Auburn University.

My current research primarily centers on issues pertaining to environmental politics, conservation, and natural resource politics in the United States. I have also made significant contributions to the urban-rural divide, nationalization, and political violence literatures. While most of my work focuses on the United States as a whole, I have also cultivated expertise in the politics of my home state, Montana, and the broader Rocky Mountain region.

My peer-reviewed work has been published by or is forthcoming at Environmental Politics, Political Behavior, Political Geography, Political Research Quarterly, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Prevention Science, American Politics Research, Research & Politics, and Publius: The Journal of Federalism.

I have also contributed commentary and analysis to the Washington Post, The Hill, National Public Radio, Democracy Journal, Washington Monthly, Reason, The Niskanen Center, and The Brookings Institute, among other outlets.

I am a faculty affiliate at the AU Institute for Election Administration Research & Practice, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Election Administration, Research & Practice.

Previously, I was an Assistant Professor at Utah Valley University, Faculty Fellow at the Gary R. Herbert Institute for Public Policy, Federalism Fellow at UVU's Center for Constitutional Studies, a Postdoctoral Researcher at Johns Hopkins University, a Presidential Predoctoral Fellow in Data Science at the Data Science Institute of the University of Virginia, member of Dr. Gerald Clore's Emotion and Cognition Lab, a fellow in the Quantitative Collaborative at UVa, and an editorial assistant at the American Journal of Political Science (methodology subfield). I earned my PhD from the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia in 2020, and my MA and BA in political science at the University of Montana.