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.
My research aims to comprehend media environments and the psychological mechanisms that promote well-informed and socially engaged citizenship. Two key questions motivate my research agenda:
1) Under what conditions do citizens place their trust in evidence-based sources in polarized environments?
2) How do emotionally engaged citizens evaluate politics and contribute to social well-being?
To answer these questions, I study how media coverage, emotions, and traumatic experiences shape citizens' assessments of the government and their involvement with environmental and public health policies. I use a variety of methodological approaches, including survey, experiment, text analysis, media coverage analysis, and measurement models.
My research transcends traditional subfield boundaries and has been published or forthcoming in Political Psychology, International Journal of Press/Politics, Journal of Personality Assessment, and Global Environmental Change, among others.
Here is a news release about my research by the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.