Education

• New York University , New York, NY. Ph.D. in Politics, May 2010;
• Sant`Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy. Ph.D. in Economics and Management, July 2006;
• Universita` commerciale L. Bocconi , Milan, Italy. M.A. in Economics, July 2001.
• Universita` degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy. B.A. in Political Science, December 1999.

Work experience

• Assistant Professor of Political Science , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (July 2010 - present)

• EITM Mentoring Faculty in Residence, University of California at Berkeley (Summer 2010).

• Instructor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Political Science Department (July 2009 - June 2010)

• Research Assistant, Princeton University, Professor Thomas Palfrey, (May 2005 - May 2006).

Visiting Positions

• Visiting Scholar, New York University, Economics and Politics Department (Jan 2003-June 2005)

Other Affiliations

• Center for Experimental Social Sciences, New York University.

• Princeton Laboratory for Experimental Social Sciences, Princeton University.

Publications

1. `The Effect of Identity, Incentives, and Information on Voting', with R.B. Morton and K. Williams, (The Journal of Politics, Vol. 73, No. 2, April 2011, Pp. 1-14).

Working papers

1. `A Model of Endogenous Government Formation.', June 2008.
2. `Reaping Political Benefits: Local Implementation of State and Federal Election Law', with R.B. Morton and J. Trounstine, October 2007.
3. `Voting Systems and Strategic Manipulation: an Experimental Study'.
4. `Trading Office for Policy. A Legislative Bargaining Model of Minority Governments'.
5. `Delegating Disenfranchisement Decisions', with R.B. Morton and J. Trounstine.

Work in progress

4. `Weather and risk aversion. An Experimental Study', with Riccardo Colacito.
5. `An Experimental Study of Fair Division'.

Referee

Grants, honors, and awards

• McCracken Fellowship (September 2006 - June 2009).
• Fondazione Invernizzi Fellowship (September 2000 - June 2001).
• B.A. in Political Science summa cum laude.
• University of Florence Fellowship (September 1995 - June 1999)

Invited seminars

• 2010, University of California at San Diego (Political Science Department), University of Minnesota (Political Science Department), Duke University (Comparative Instititions Workshop).
• 2009, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University (MEDS Division).
• 2008, Washington University at Saint Louis (Political Science Department), Princeton University (Political Science Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Political Science Department).

Conference presentations

• 2011, Southern Political Science Association Meeting (New Orleans, LA, January 2011), Midwest Political Science Annual Meeting (Chicago, IL, April 2011)
• 2010, Midwest Political Science Annual Meeting (Chicago, IL, April 2010), American Political Science Annual Meetings (Washington, DC, September 2010).
• 2009, Midwest Political Science Annual Meeting (Chicago, IL, April 2009), American Political Science Annual Meetings (Toronto, CA, September 2009).
• 2008, Midwest Political Science Annual Meeting (Chicago, IL, April 2008), Political Methodology Summer Meeting (Ann Arbor, MI, July 2008), American Political Science Annual Meetings (Boston, MA, September 2008), Conference on Experiments in Interactive Decision Making (Princeton, November 2008).
• 2007, Midwest Political Science Annual Meeting (Chicago, IL, April 2007), American Political Science Annual Meetings (Chichago, IL, September 2007).
• 2006, Midwest Political Science Annual Meeting (Chicago, IL, April 2006), Political Methodology Summer Meeting (Davis, CA, July 2006), American Political Science Annual Meetings (Philadelphia, PA, September 2006), Economic Science Association North American Meetings (Tucson, AZ, September 2006), Annual Conference in Empirical Legal Studies (Austin, TX, October 2006).

Teaching experience

• `Advanced Game Theory', graduate, UNC at Chapel Hill
• Fall 2010.
• `Game Theory', graduate, UNC at Chapel Hill
• Spring 2010/2011.
• `Strategy and Politics', undergraduate, UNC at Chapel Hill
• Spring 2011.
• `Causality and Experimentation in Social Science', undergraduate (senior), UNC at Chapel Hill
• Fall 2010.
• `Experimental methods in Political Science', undergraduate, UNC at Chapel Hill
• Fall 2009/Spring 2010.

Discussions

• Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, IL, April 2011.
• CESS-NYU Experimental Political Science Conference, NY, NY, March 2011 "Casella, Llorente-Saguer, Palfrey, Competitive Equilibrium in markets for votes".
• State Politics and Policy, CH, NC, May 2009. "Snyder and Ting, Electoral Selection with Parties and Primaries".

Service

• Undergraduate Studies Committee (2010-2011).
• Dissertation Committee: Christopher Dittmeier.