Hi! I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill.
My research seeks to understand how and why Americans develop (anti-) democratic attitudes using a mix of survey and experimental methods. In particular, I focus on the development of survey research methods and the role of media in the development of (anti-)democratic attitudes. Currently, I am working on a book-length project showing that Americans are becoming less tolerant of political expression because we believe social media provides too much freedom for people to express too wide a range of political ideas. Other projects include a series of panel studies documenting population-level net effects of social media use on political attitudes and a set of papers on measurement of anti-democratic attitudes among the American public.
I completed my joint Ph.D.s in Political Science and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania in August 2025.