​I am an associate professor in the Department of International Affairs within the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) at the University of Georgia. I am also an instructor in the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research. 

In the 2018-2019 academic year, I am a Democracy Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. I was previously a post-doctoral researcher with the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship at McGill University and the Making Electoral Democracy Work project at the University of Montreal. I received a Ph.D. in political science from Michigan State University.

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