Publications

Proving Her Strength: The Partisan and Gendered Implications of Legislative Obstruction (With Lauren Palladino & Ryan Vander Wielen in Legislative Studies Quarterly) https://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.70026

Diversity Politics: The Effects of Elite Rhetoric and Issue Racialization on Support for Descriptive Representation (With Hannah Nam in Political Psychology) https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.70083

Validating Whites’ Reactions to the “Racial Shift” (With Drew Engelhardt & Veronica Oelerich in Journal of Experimental Political Science) https://doi.org/10.1017/XPS.2025.2 

When Push Comes to Shove: Who Americans Excuse and Condemn for Political Violence (With Joe Phillips, Kal Munis, Arif Memovic, and Jake Ford in Political Behavior) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-025-10009-7 

The Effect of News Coverage Celebrating Inclusion in Congress (With Lauren Palladino & Romeo Gray in Public Opinion Quarterly) https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfaf050

Why Does Place Matter More (Politically) to Rural People? Political Communication, Fomenting Place Resentment, and Urban Collective Narcissism (With Kal Munis in Rethinking Rural Politics, edited by Nicholas F. Jacobs) https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/3fg59 

Working Papers or Under Review

Worth a Try?: The Electoral Consequences of Symbolic Legislation (With John Kane and David Stack) 

Education’s Worth: How Different Voters Evaluate Education Across Candidate Gender (With Ryan Vander Wielen) 

The Protesters in Our Heads: American (Mis)Perceptions About Who Engages in Disruptive Expression (With Soren Jordan, Kal Munis, Joe Phillips, and Michael Soules) 

Demographics of Protestors Do Not Lower Americans’ Support for Political Protest or Rejection of Political Violence (With Soren Jordan, Joe Phillips, and Michael Soules) 

Talking about diversity in politics improves evaluations of an underrepresented presidential candidate (With Hannah Nam) 

There’s Something Wrong in the Village: Psychological Bases of Support for Transgender Genocide (With Asha Venogupalan) 

Is the Gender Asymmetry in Policy Accountability Caused by Elite Communication?

Who Holds Politicians Accountable: The Role of Institutions in Electoral Accountability

Fragile Links: Racial Group Embeddedness and Variability in Group Meaning (with Drew Engelhardt) 

Research In Progress

Who Wants to Know?: Information and Fact Check Seeking in Disinformation Environments (with Vin Arceneaux and Ryan Vander Wielen)

Masculinity and Femininity Measures (with Asha Venugopalan, Morgan Pettit, Ryan Vander Wielen)

What is Diversity For? Examining Diversity Rationales and Psychological (Dis)comfort (with Hannah Nam)