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I am currently a social scientist at the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Studies.

I previously served as an assistant professor of political science at New College of Florida. I completed a Ph.D. in Political Science at Penn State University where my graduate work was supported by a National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship.

My major field of study is comparative politics and my secondary fields are American politics and political methodology. My research focuses on understanding how and why respect for democratic norms and institutions vary at the subnational (state) level and the implications of that variation for a variety of outcomes including national democratic legitimacy and stability.