Welcome!

I am a PhD Candidate in Political Science at Columbia University. My research focuses on political behavior in the United States as citizens confront the prospect of democratic backsliding. I explore whether and how Americans respond to the extraordinary circumstances of contemporary politics by engaging in unusual political behaviors. My research uses survey and field experiments and my methodological interests lie in experimental and survey methods.

In the past, I have conducted research on Congressional town halls and the historical roots of foreign aid provision. In my spare time I can be found wandering Morningside Heights and playing racket sports with vastly varying degrees of skill.

My research is or has been supported by the Center for Effective Lawmaking, the Columbia Experimental Labratory for the Social Sciences, the Institute for Humane Studies, the Stanford Polarization and Social Change Lab and the Civic Health and Institutions Project. I am indebted also to the activist and political groups with whom I have cooperated on field experiments.

I am not the Yale Professor of the same name and I am unable to contribute to your volume on legal ethics.

Ongoing Projects

1. Campaign Activists and Moderation
2. Learning from the Lie: Voter Fraud Claims and Reputations in the Republican Party (with Patrick Liu and Carlo Prato).
3. Democratic Norms in Presidential Primaries (with Hans Noel)

Working Papers (Drafts Available on Request)

1. Strategic Reasoning and Support for Democratic Backsliding
2. Encouraging Crossover Voting in Presidential Primaries (with Hayley Cohen). Revise and Resubmit.
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3. Trump's Prosecution in the Court of Public Opinion: The Limited Effects of Competing Rhetoric about Trump's Prosecution (with Andrew O'Donohue). Revise and Resubmit.
   [Working Paper]
4. Experimentally Testing Ancipatory Balancing, with Cody Prosperini (Under Review)
5. Intra-Party Social Pressure (with Patrick Liu).
6. Learning from the Lie: Voter Fraud Claims and Reputations in the Republican Party (with Patrick Liu and Carlo Prato).
7. Meta-Perception Corrections in the Field (with Aaron Christensen and Andrew Thompson)
8. Testing Deep Versus Standard Canvassing
9. Crossover Voting in Congressional Primaries (with Hayley Cohen).