Welcome!
I am an associate professor in the Department of Government & Law at Lafayette College. I’m also an affiliate of the Center for Effective Lawmaking and the founder of a non-partisan social science research group: the Lafayette College Gov Lab.
My current research primarily focuses on policy experiments (i.e., RCTs) and the politics of evidence within local governments. Through a series of articles and a very early-stage book project (Effective Government), I study how experimental approaches to public policy diffuse across laboratories of American democracy.
I teach several courses on American gov. and quantitative methods.
Note: I am on sabbatical during AY2026-2027, and I will be in London in Fall 2027.