Much of my research focuses on how national political institutions and public policies evolve, as well as how these developments shape citizens’ attitudes and political behaviors. I have published extensively on education policy, presidential politics, and party politics, and am currently writing a book on the development of the Voting Rights Act since 1965. While I was trained as a historical institutionalist and make extensive use of historical methods and archival materials in my research, I have increasingly employed computational methods - particularly machine learning to analyze large text datasets - in my research. I believe there are exciting opportunities for synergies between historically-motivated research and computational social science methods.
