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Education
B.A. (summa cum laude), Union College, 2005
Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 2012

Research Fields: Race, Religion, Gender, Immigration, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, Policy Attitudes

Courses: Exit Poll; Public Opinion; Immigration Politics; Experiments; Identity Politics; Religion and Politics; American Federal Government

About me: I am an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Political Science department at the University of Oklahoma where I study group identity in the context of American political behavior. I also serve as a faculty member for Latinx Studies and Women and Gender Studies. I run OU’s Community Engagement + Experiments Laboratory (CEEL), Oklahoma City’s Community Poll (Exit Poll), and OU’s Democracy Survey of OU freshmen. For fun, I like to lend research support to organizations seeking to increase civic engagement and improve the democratic health of their local communities.

This year, I am serving as a 2024-2025 Public Religion Research Fellow. I am honored to be the 2024 recipient (w. Ana Bracic and Mackenzie Israel-Trummel) of the Southern Political Science Association's Best Overall Paper Award and the Marian Irish Award for Best Paper on Women and Politics. 

My co-authored Cambridge University Press book, The Everyday Crusade: Christian Nationalism in American Politics (2022 – w. Eric L. McDaniel and Irfan Nooruddin), examines the relationship between American religious exceptionalism and prejudicial and antidemocratic attitudes.

​I am also part of a trans-disciplinary and cross-university research team that uses community engaged approaches to assist with rural renewal efforts in Oklahoma. 

At the doctoral level, I teach courses on group identity, public opinion/political psychology, and American political behavior.