I am a Teaching Assistant Professor at the Department of Government and Justice Studies at Appalachian State University. I received my PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois. 

I am a political psychologist studying how individuals judge who deserves the rights of citizenship: the right to vote, the right to free speech, and access to public services. As the scope of democratic inclusion gets debated, I study the psychological processes that drive how people make these judgments. My research is published in Political Science Research and Methods, Scientific Reports, Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, and Politics, Groups, and Identities.

I teach courses including Political Psychology, Immigration and Citizenship, and The Right to Vote in the US.

Here is my CV