Associate Professor, Syracuse University (fall 2023)
Associate Professor of Political Communication, LSU
Andrew Carnegie Fellow, 2022-2024
I am the Associate Dean for Research & Strategic Initiatives in the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University, where I am an associate professor of political communication. I am also a 2022 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. I study American government and political communication, with an emphasis on political behavior, campaign strategy, and local media.
This fall, I will join Syracuse University as an associate professor of Communications and Magazine, News, and Digital Journalism in the Newhouse School of Public Communications. I will also be an associate professor of political science (by courtesy) in the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, and a Senior Research Associate in the Campbell Public Affairs Institute.
My first book, Home Style Opinion: How Local Newspapers Can Slow Polarization (with Matthew P. Hitt and Johanna L. Dunaway), is now published with Cambridge University Press' series Elements in Politics and Communication. My second book, Storefront Campaigning (with Sean Whyard; expected Spring 2024), is under advance contract from Cambridge University Press' series Elements in Campaigns and Elections.
I have written about politics and media for The Boston Globe, FiveThirtyEight, The Washington Post, Vox, Mischiefs of Faction, The Conversation, Nieman Journalism Lab, and Scientific American. I also serve on the editorial board of the journal Political Communication.
You can visit my Google Scholar profile here. My research is published or forthcoming in Journal of Communication, Political Communication, Perspectives on Politics, American Politics Research, Social Science Quarterly, Presidential Studies Quarterly, PLoS ONE, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Journal of Political Marketing, and Political Science Research & Methods.
I received my Ph.D. in political science from the University of Pennsylvania in May 2015, and my B.A. in political science from Boston College in May 2009. I grew up in Newton, Massachusetts.
This fall, I will join Syracuse University as an associate professor of Communications and Magazine, News, and Digital Journalism in the Newhouse School of Public Communications. I will also be an associate professor of political science (by courtesy) in the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, and a Senior Research Associate in the Campbell Public Affairs Institute.
My first book, Home Style Opinion: How Local Newspapers Can Slow Polarization (with Matthew P. Hitt and Johanna L. Dunaway), is now published with Cambridge University Press' series Elements in Politics and Communication. My second book, Storefront Campaigning (with Sean Whyard; expected Spring 2024), is under advance contract from Cambridge University Press' series Elements in Campaigns and Elections.
I have written about politics and media for The Boston Globe, FiveThirtyEight, The Washington Post, Vox, Mischiefs of Faction, The Conversation, Nieman Journalism Lab, and Scientific American. I also serve on the editorial board of the journal Political Communication.
You can visit my Google Scholar profile here. My research is published or forthcoming in Journal of Communication, Political Communication, Perspectives on Politics, American Politics Research, Social Science Quarterly, Presidential Studies Quarterly, PLoS ONE, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Journal of Political Marketing, and Political Science Research & Methods.
I received my Ph.D. in political science from the University of Pennsylvania in May 2015, and my B.A. in political science from Boston College in May 2009. I grew up in Newton, Massachusetts.
