I’m a political scientist studying the American policymaking process. I’m an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University’s Bush School of Government and Public Service. Before coming to College Station, I was a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University; I earned my PhD in political economics from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2024.

My primary research agenda combines large-scale administrative data and survey experiments to study the politics of American agriculture in two ways. First, I investigate substantive puzzles in farm policy that bear on our understanding of interest group power and policy feedback. Second, I treat the political economy of farming as a data-rich window into the cross-pressures of material and symbolic interests that characterize the defining policy problems of the twenty-first century: international trade, immigration, and climate change. The first two papers from this agenda appear in the American Political Science Review (2022, 2025).