Research Agenda

I study participation, fair treatment, and credible measurement.

My research examines democratic participation, institutional inequality, and the methods we use to study both. I ask how schools, families, civic experiences, public policies, political events, and administrative systems shape who participates, who is heard, and who is treated fairly by public and private institutions.

Participation

Democratic Participation

How civic skills, schools, families, registration systems, and political events shape whether people participate in democracy.

Inequality

Discrimination & Institutions

How race, ethnicity, class, names, perceived foreignness, and institutional gatekeeping shape unequal treatment.

Evidence

Applied Methods

Field experiments, survey experiments, administrative data, text analysis, and quasi-experimental designs for public-facing questions.

Access

Education, Health & Public Life

The institutional settings where democratic inclusion becomes concrete: schools, health care, public services, and public administration.
Paper Network as Four Scholarly Hubs Hover or focus on paper nodes to see paper titles, hub, year, status, and word count.
A current map of the research portfolio, grouped into four major scholarly hubs.

Research Visualized

A visual guide to the research portfolio.

A visual summary of the research portfolio: where the work has been, where it is heading, and how the papers connect.

58papers analyzed
864kcleaned words
2016-26years covered
4main research hubs

Scholarly Identity

I study who participates, who is treated fairly, and what evidence would tell us.

The portfolio starts from democratic participation and grows into a broader account of democratic inclusion: civic skills, turnout, institutional accountability, discrimination, education, health, and the measurement problems that tie them together. In the full-text network, the work forms two connected lobes: democratic participation on one side and discrimination/field-audit work on the other, bridged by methods and measurement.

Question-led Design-based Collaborative Cross-disciplinary

Where The Work Is Heading

I track where the published record is headed.

Compare the published record with the active pipeline, or switch to a decade view to see how the agenda has widened from voting and civic participation into discrimination, methods, and institutional treatment.

Interactive slope chart of research themes Theme shares compared across published work and active pipeline, with lines connecting each theme.

Methods Toolkit

I use the tools that fit the question.

Methods toolkit used across papers.

Disciplinary Reach

I work across political science, policy, education, sociology, economics, and science.

Disciplinary reach of the publications.