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Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University and a Faculty Associate at Northwestern’s Institute for Policy Research. I received my PhD in Political Science from UNC-Chapel Hill in May 2024. I am also a proud alum of Middlebury College (’17) and the United World College in Hong Kong (’13).

I study stereotyping, discrimination, and intergroup relations. How do people respond to political actors—politicians, protesters, or plaintiffs, for example—based on characteristics related to the target’s gender, sexual orientation, race, and ethnicity? What are the mechanisms—stereotypes, ideologies, and characteristic adaptations—driving prejudicial treatment of marginalized communities? Might the prevailing ways we approach operationalising and experimentally manipulating identities cause us to misconstrue how—and how much—prejudice gets directed against minorities in the real world? To what extent do members of ideologically dissimilar groups understand each other? What kinds of people and prose are most effective in changing other people’s minds on topics such as transgender or immigrant rights? I explore these questions in a series of single-authored projects as well as in collaboration with other scholars from a variety of disciplines, including political scientists, social psychologists, and sociolinguists. Methodologically, I am especially interested in showcasing the power and promise of using vocal experimental stimuli and audio data for studying biases and socio-political inequalities.

My research is published or is forthcoming in the American Political Science Review and the Journal of Politics. My work has received generous support from the Russell Sage Foundation, the  American Political Science Association , the German Academic Exchange Service, the Rapoport Family Foundation, and several centers at UNC and Northwestern.