Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Rice University. Previously, I was an assistant professor at the University of Houston and a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Oxford.
My research is in comparative party politics, political behavior, and political psychology, with geographic interest in Western democracies broadly and the UK specifically. I work on understanding the types of information and messages that voters receive from their representational environment and how they respond to such stimuli. I am particularly interested in understanding moral messaging from political parties, along with how morality works in voter psychology. But in addition to morality and party communication, I also study other types of information and messages that people encounter in sociopolitical life, such as news coverage about economic issues and signals about norms on social issues.
I received my PhD from the Department of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis. Before graduate school, I studied at Underwood International College of Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. I received a BA in Political Science and International Relations with highest honors.