I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Rice University. This academic year, I will be a visiting doctoral student at the Chair of Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim.
I study comparative politics, with a focus on political behavior in advanced democracies. My research explores the nature of partisan identity and attachment in multi-party systems. In my dissertation, I explore the various factors that affect how citizens develop attachments to multiple parties, such as overlapping social group membership, shared policy goals, and partisan cooperation in coalition governments. I use a wide range of methodological tools in my research, including mass surveys, experiments, and machine learning.
I hold an M.A. in Political Science from Rice University and a B.S. in Political Science from Texas A&M University.