I am a PhD Candidate in the Department of Government at Cornell University.  I study American politics, with focuses on political economy,  public policy, and the historical causes and consequences of racial, economic, gendered, and place-based inequalities. In Fall 2025, I will join Johns Hopkins University as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Economy and Society. In Fall 2026, I will join the University of Oregon's Department of Political Science as Assistant Professor of Inequality. 

Among other projects, I am writing a dissertation on the political development of the health care workforce in the United States. 

With Suzanne Mettler, I am co-author of Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide that Threatens Democracy (Princeton University Press, forthcoming Sept. 2025). 

Before coming to Cornell, I earned a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science (Distinction and Honors) and English Literature from Wittenberg University in Springfield, OH, my hometown. I am proudly a first generation, low-income (FGLI) student. 

In my free time, I like to read, watch baseball, and run. 

My CV is here and email here.

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