I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Dartmouth College in the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences where I also serve as a manager of the Class of 1964 Policy Research Shop. 

My research focuses on the interplay of welfare state institutions and the criminal legal system. My dissertation specifically asked how citizens and policymakers consider tradeoffs between punishment, rehabilitation and social welfare, and how such priorities lead to cross-national and cross-temporal variation in state punitiveness.

My work has been published in Regulation & Governance as well as at outlets like the Monkey Cage, and has been supported by grants from the Open Philanthropy Project, the University of Oxford, and the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, which also awarded my work the Robert K. Merton Award. 

My broader research interests include comparative political economy, electoral systems and behaviour, inequality, law and society, race and ethnicity, and state capacity. During the 2024-2025 academic year, I am one of the inaugural scholars for the American Bar Foundation’s Access to Justice Research Initiative Early Career Workshop.

In 2023, I completed my DPhil at the University of Oxford in the Department of Politics and International Relations. Between 2021-2023, I was also a Postgraduate Associate with the Leitner Program on Effective Democratic Governance at Yale University's Jackson School of Global Affairs.

I am on the 2024-2025 academic job market.