Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor of Public Administration in the Department of Government and Justice Studies at Appalachian State University. Prior to that, I worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Auburn University at Montgomery, as well as a Postdoctoral Associate at Duke University's Social Science Research Institute. Before that, I completed my PhD in 2016 at The Charles & Louise Travers Department of Political Science at The University of California, Berkeley. My research interests include American government at both the national and state levels, public administration and policy, and methodology.