My research agenda centers around how American political elites, such as candidates for office or interest groups, publicly communicate, with a focus on their use of new technologies like social media.

I am working on a book project about elite communication and its consequences. Using congressional campaigns on Twitter as a lens, I highlight what we miss as scholars by considering voters to be the primary audience of elite communication across modes. Rather than voters, campaigns reach the media, national donors, and interest groups on the platform.

My work has been published in Electoral Studies, Social Media + Society, Congress Reconsidered, Social Science Quarterly, PS: Political Science & Politics, the Journal of Law & Courts, the Journal of Women, Politics, & Policy, and the Journal of Quantitative Description.

I am a RYT-200 and enjoy baking, true crime, super hero movies, and political podcasts. 

Welcome!

I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Kentucky. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Center for Social Media and Politics at NYU. I received my Ph.D. in political science from Emory University in 2020.