About Me

I am an Assistant Professor in Lafayette College’s Department of Government and Law. Substantively, my interests involve race, immigration, political participation, and public opinion and I use methods ranging from interviews to survey experiments and network analysis. I earned my PhD in Politics from Princeton University with specializations in American Politics, Comparative Politics, and Formal and Quantitative Methods. My dissertation, Creative Citizenship: The Impacts of Racialized Incorporation on Political Participation, won the 2023 American Political Science Association Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section Best Dissertation Award. Before that, I earned my MA in Politics from Princeton University. During graduate school, I was a co-organizer for Princeton Women in Politics and a graduate fellow in Princeton Research in Experimental Social Science. I graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass). At UMass Amherst, I was fellow in UMass Women into Leadership, a fellow of SBS Rise (formerly Academic Fellows Program), and a Commonwealth Honors College Scholar with Greatest Distinction.