I study voting and voting rights, race, the criminal justice system, and bureaucratic behavior. My work uses large datasets to measure individual-level experiences, and to shed light on people’s everyday interactions with government.
My recent work investigates how potential voters react to experiences with punitive government policies, such as incarceration and immigration enforcement, and how people can make their way back into political life after these experiences. In other projects, my co-authors and I have examined how local election officials treat constituents of different ethnicities, how media shapes public conversations, and whether parties face electoral penalties when nominating minority candidates. My research has appeared in the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, Science, and elsewhere.