You can find my cv here.
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I am a doctoral candidate in Political Science at the University of Chicago studying American politics and a 2020-2021 Urban Doctoral Fellow. My research interests broadly include public opinion, political behavior, and the role of political and social identities in shaping politics. My research has been published in Social Science Quarterly and featured in the Washington Post, MinnPost, and Reframing Russia.
In my dissertation, I use a combination of semi-structured in-depth interviews and survey data to generate and evaluate a new typology of white identification. Using a case study of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area in Minnesota, I argue that there are four broad types of white identification that vary in white consciousness, from low to high, and by affect, from grievance to privilege. Based on this qualitative work, I introduce a novel survey measurement for capturing the four types of white identifiers. This allows me to generalize the typology to the broader population, and to investigate the extent to which white identification shapes attitudes about racial justice initiatives, policies, partisanship, and political participation. My broader research agenda is similarly motivated by questions of how identity shapes political attitudes and behavior, especially around issues of racial justice in the United States. I hold an MA in Political Science from the University of Chicago and a BA in Political Science and English, summa cum laude, from the University of Minnesota. (Go Gophers!) |