About Me

Broadly, my research focuses on American politics, political economy, and political behavior. I use experimental economic games, public opinion data, and formal theory to examine how psychological motivations, such as compassion and fairness, influence political attitudes and behavior. In particular, I am interested in how our experiences with income inequality impact our preferences toward redistribution. I also study how motivations like compassion and fairness influence our decisions about redistribution and social insurance. My work has been published in journals like Political Psychology and Nature Scientific Data. 

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I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Behavioral Research Lab (BRL) at Lehigh University. I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from Stony Brook University in 2024. I began at Stony Brook in Fall 2019, after graduating from Roger Williams University with a double major in Political Science and Economics.