https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5159-4740
Overview
I am an Assistant Research Professor in the Duke Social Science Research Institute (SSRI), where I study a range of topics related to political accountability, include gerrymandering, social networks, election administration and race and incarceration.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Assistant Research Professor of Political Science
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2023 - Present
Political Science,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Associate Director of the Rhodes Information Initiative at Duke
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2024 - Present
Rhodes Information Initiative at Duke,
University Initiatives & Academic Support Units
Director of the Master in Interdisciplinary Data Science (MIDS)
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2025 - Present
Master in Interdisciplinary Data Science,
Social Science Research Institute
Director of Graduate Studies for the Master in Interdisciplinary Data Science (MIDS)
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2025 - Present
Master in Interdisciplinary Data Science,
Social Science Research Institute
Assistant Research Professor in the Social Science Research Institute
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2024 - Present
Social Science Research Institute,
University Institutes and Centers
Recent Publications
Section 2 of the voting rights act and native representation
Journal Article Journal of Legal Analysis · January 1, 2026 We have undertaken the first systematic, cross-state investigation of the relationship between Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and Native representation. Though it is not necessary for Native representation, Section 2 remains an important contributor. I ... Full text CiteEnfranchisement and Incarceration after the 1965 Voting Rights Act
Journal Article American Political Science Review · August 20, 2022 The 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) fundamentally changed the distribution of electoral power in the US South. We examine the consequences of this mass enfranchisement of Black people for the use of the carceral state-police, the courts, and the prison system ... Full text Open Access CitePartisan Dislocation: A Precinct-Level Measure of Representation and Gerrymandering
Journal Article Political Analysis · July 30, 2022 We introduce a fine-grained measure of the extent to which electoral districts combine and split local communities of co-partisans in unnatural ways. Our indicator - which we term Partisan Dislocation - is a measure of the difference between the partisan c ... Full text CiteEducation
Stanford University ·
2016
Ph.D.