I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis's Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy. I earned my Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Michigan, and previously served as a postdoctoral associate at Dartmouth College's Rockefeller Center for Public Policy.
I study how public opinion is shaped as individuals engage with politics both indirectly—through information—and directly—through experience. My research explores how the psychological mechanisms behind these two modes of engagement foster democratic accountability and an informed, engaged public.
My research agenda focuses on two core themes: first, how trust in news sources is formed and how trusted information shapes public opinion and policy outcomes; and second, how personal and collective experiences influence political attitudes and participation through emotional pathways.
I use a range of methodological tools, including experiments (online, field, quasi), surveys (cross-sectional, panel, scale development), focus group interviews, and text-as-data approaches (LLM-based media analysis, topic modeling).
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My research transcends traditional subfield boundaries, with articles published or forthcoming in Political Communication, Political Psychology, PNAS Nexus, International Journal of Press/Politics, Global Environmental Change, and Journal of Personality Assessment, among others.​