Welcome! I am an Associate Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Wilf Family Department of Politics at New York University.  My research is in the areas of political psychology, religious and ethnic politics, identity, civic education, gender, and political participation. I have conducted studies in the United States, South Africa, Kenya, Benin, Zambia, and Sierra Leone. I am a founder of the Identities & Ideologies Project at NYU.  My first book, Envy in Politics (Princeton University Press, 2018), examines how people's desires for high within-group status can influence their political behavior; it won the Robert Lane Best Book Award from the APSA Political Psychology Section. My second book, From Pews to Politics (co-authored with Rachel Riedl, Cambridge University Press, 2019), examines how exposure to religious ideas can influence whether and how people participate in politics; it was a finalist for the Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize and won an Honorable Mention from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. 

A pdf version of my CV is available here. 

You can find some of my current research projects here.

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