I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Houston. I was previously an Assistant Professor at the California Institute of Technology and a Postdoctoral Associate at the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics at Yale University. I received my Ph.D. from Princeton University in the Research Program in Political Economy and was awarded the Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship.

My research studies how collective decisions get made — inside committees and legislatures, where policymakers deliberate and vote, and at the ballot box, where voters hold politicians to account — joining formal models to data through structural estimation, causal inference, and experiments. My empirical work draws on committees such as the Federal Open Market Committee and the U.S. Supreme Court, and on elections in the United States, Mexico, and the Philippines.