You can find my cv here.
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I am a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago studying American politics. My research interests broadly include public opinion, political psychology, and political behavior. More specifically, I am interested in how intergroup relations and different social identities shape white racial attitudes and their political consequences.
My dissertation, "Red, White, and Anti-Black: Nationalism and White Ethnicity in U.S. Politics" argues that for many whites in the United States, white identity and American identity together constitute a specifically American white ethnicity. This ethnicity is historically constituted through laws, institutions, and race relations in the United States and maintained through the performance of Americanness and whiteness together. While many whites are unable to detect content in their whiteness, they implicitly perceive and express their racial identity through their national identity. The dissertation project explores the implications of this phenomenon with a combination of qualitative interviews and survey experiments to understand how American white ethnicity shapes membership and belonging in the United States, the expression of racial animus, and resurgent cultural nationalism in reaction to shifting demographics. 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!) |
