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 associate at Dartmouth College's Rockefeller Center for Public Policy.
While political trust is one of the bedrocks of a well-functioning democracy, as the popular saying goes, “trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair.” I study the conditions under which foundational institutions of informed democracy—such as the media, science, and political institutions—lose trust and what can be done to repair the broken trust.
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).
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.