I am a doctoral candidate in political science at Yale and a resident graduate affiliate of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS). I am chiefly interested in presidential leadership in the American separation-of-powers system. My book-length dissertation project concerns “presidential prioritization,” the process by which presidents and their teams determine the domestic policy issues on which they will focus at the start of their administrations. This research has been funded by the Bach Fellowship and the Scowcroft Institute at Texas A&M University.  Portions of this work have appeared in Presidential Studies Quarterly and Evaluating the Obama Presidency: From Transformational Goals to Governing Realities (De Gruyter 2024). 

In a companion book project (with John Dearborn of Vanderbilt), I analyze congressional expectations of presidential self-restraint in the context of post-Watergate appointments legislation. Our manuscript is under advance contract with Cambridge University Press as part of its Elements in American Politics series.

Additionally, I am extremely passionate about pedagogy and undergraduate research. I run the Dahl Research Scholars at ISPS and serve as one of the two graduate advisers for the Program on Ethics, Politics, and Economics senior essay capstone this year. I received a Certificate of College Teaching Preparation from the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning in 2023.

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