I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in Survey Research 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 Research Associate at Dartmouth College's Rockefeller Center for Public Policy.
Political trust is one of the bedrocks of a well-functioning democracy. Yet, as the popular saying goes, “trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair.” I study the conditions under which knowledge-generating institutions in democracy—the media, government, and science—earn, lose, and recover public trust, and how they shape citizens’ political attitudes in polarized environments and amid evolving technologies, from social media to artificial intelligence (AI).
I employ diverse methodological approaches, including experiments (online, field, and quasi-experimental), surveys (cross-sectional, panel, and scale development), and focus group interviews. I also leverage large language models (LLMs) to analyze media coverage, open-ended survey responses, and web-tracking data.
My research has been published in Political Communication, Political Psychology, PNAS Nexus, International Journal of Press/Politics, Global Environmental Change, and Journal of Personality Assessment, among others.