I am a Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis. I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from WashU in 2014 and have also worked at the Martin School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Kentucky. My specialization is formal theory, meaning theoretical political science expressed in the language of mathematics.

My current research interests include money in politics; the relationship between economic and political inequality; the capacity of democratic institutions to support informed and intelligent decision-making (i.e., epistemic democracy); the use of social science methods to study the practice of science itself; and the integration of political psychology into formal theoretical models.