Welcome
I am an assistant
professor in
the Department of Political Science at the University at Buffalo, SUNY.
I teach classes in the areas of judicial politics and public
law, and my current research focuses on the quantitative examination of
federal
courts. My recent work has appeared in places such
as American
Journal of Political Science,
Journal
of Law, Economics, & Organization,
Northwestern
Law Review, and American
Politics Research.
In 2009, I received my Ph.D. in political science from Washington University in St. Louis. While at Wash U, I worked with Andrew D. Martin, James F. Spriggs, Lee Epstein, Pauline Kim, and Margo Schlanger and was a graduate student associate in the Center for Empirical Research in the Law (CERL) at Washington University School of Law. Prior to graduate schoool, I received a B.A. with honors in political science from the University of Florida in 2001 and a J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law in 2004. I am a member of the North Carolina Bar (inactive), and I grew up in beautiful western Montana.