I am a postdoctoral research associate at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College. I earned my Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Michigan. Beginning in Fall 2025, I will join the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy at Washington University in St. Louis as a Postdoctoral Fellow.
In today’s complex media and political environments, individuals navigate news and societal events not only through facts, but also through identity, emotion, and experience. My research investigates how people form political opinions in response to information and lived experiences, and how these processes shape information credibility, civic engagement, and democratic accountability.
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I pursue this research agenda through two interrelated themes:
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Politics as Information: I study how individuals make sense of political, scientific, and contested information in polarized media environments. This work examines how citizens evaluate the credibility of journalistic, scientific, and personal sources of information, which are foundational to public opinion and democratic accountability.
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Politics as Experience: I explore how personal experiences and collective traumas—from democracy-threatening corruption and natural disasters to war and mass tragedy—shape political attitudes and participation. This work examines emotional responses as key mechanisms linking experience to political attitudes and engagement.
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 coverage analysis, topic modeling).
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My research transcends traditional subfield boundaries and has been published in International Journal of Press/Politics, Political Psychology, PNAS Nexus, Global Environmental Change, and Journal of Personality Assessment, among others.​