About
Thank you for visiting my website. I am a doctoral candidate in political science at UNC-Chapel Hill studying American politics and research methodology. I hold an M.A. in political science from American University and a B.A. in economics and political science from Guilford College.
My primary research interests include public opinion on policy issues, policy and media agendas, legislative politics and issue framing. I developed these interests during my career before graduate school while working as a writer for a K Street communications firm and as a campaign manager.
My dissertation is titled The Influence of Partisan Conflict on Policy Attitudes. Some of the data needed for the dissertation are being collected as part of an NSF-funded project, "Developing Policy-Specific Measures of Public Opinion," for which I serve as a research assistant. Jim Stimson and Frank Baumgartner are the PI's for this project, the goal of which is to thicken and disaggregate Stimson's mood measure to allow researchers to track mood on specific policy topics.
