Current Appointments & Affiliations
Assistant Professor of Political Science
·
2023 - Present
Political Science,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
Emergent structures of attention on social media are driven by amplification and triad transitivity.
Journal Article PNAS nexus · April 2025 As they evolve, social networks tend to form transitive triads more often than random chance and structural constraints would suggest. However, the mechanisms by which triads in these networks become transitive are largely unexplored. We leverage a ... Full text CiteCuration Bubbles
Journal Article American Political Science Review · January 1, 2025 Information on social media is characterized by networked curation processes in which users select other users from whom to receive information, and those users in turn share information that promotes their identities and interests. We argue this allows fo ... Full text Open Access CiteCategorizing Topics Versus Inferring Attitudes: A Theory and Method for Analyzing Open-ended Survey Responses
Journal Article Political Analysis · January 1, 2025 Past work on closed-ended survey responses demonstrates that inferring stable political attitudes requires separating signal from noise in "top of the head"answers to researchers' questions. We outline a corresponding theory of the open-ended response, in ... Full text CiteEducation, Training & Certifications
Ohio State University ·
2020
Ph.D.