I am a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Stony Brook University. I study political psychology and public opinion with an emphasis on understanding how people think about economic policy. My work has been published or is forthcoming at the British Journal of Political Science and Social and Personality Psychology Compass.

My dissertation explores the widely reported relationship between emotional distress and political ideology, showing that individual differences in anxiety-proneness affect economic attitudes by shaping sensitivity to real or perceived harms.

My other research explores topics such as how public opinion responds to changes in ethnic diversity and how cognitive skills shape the effects of political information.

I am also a ragtime piano enthusiast and lover of Flemish Brown Ales.