Research

Book Projects

Scaling the Meaning of Text with Word Embeddings. with Rachel Porter Under Contract with Cambridge University Press’s Elements in Quantitative and Computational Methods for the Social Sciences

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Purchasing Privilege? How Status Cues Affect Police Suspicion in Routine Traffic Stops. with Frank R. Baumgartner and Will Spillman. Forthcoming. Politics, Groups, and Identities [Paper]

The Selling of Experience in the 2022 Congressional Elections. with Sarah A. Treul. 2024. The Journal of Political Marketing [Paper]

Partisan Appeals to Bipartisanship. with Emily Cottle Ommundsen. 2024. Political Behavior [Paper] [Replication Materials]

Working Papers

Measuring Strategic Positioning in Congressional Elections. (Invited to Revise and Resubmit at The Journal of Politics) [Working Paper]

Conceptualizing and Measuring Early Campaign Fundraising in U.S. House Elections. with Rachel Porter. (Invited to Revise and Resubmit at Political Science Research Methods) [Working Paper]

Measuring Policy Positioning in US Congressional Elections. with Rachel Porter. [Working Paper]

Congressional Campaign Strategies and Bipartisan Tendencies. with Emily Cottle Ommundsen and Rachel Porter.

Work in Progress

Coloring within the Party Lines: Candidate Branding in Primary Elections. [Polmeth 2023 Poster]

Issue Attention in Congressional Primary Elections. with Audrey Sachleben and Sarah A. Treul