I am currently Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. My substantive research focuses on the causes and consequences of state repression, particularly democratic institutions, though I am also working on models for manifesto-based party placements (with Jeremy Albright and Ryan Bakker) and strategic voting (with Ray Duch and Jeff May). I teach quantitative methods at UWM the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Summer Program and have taught at the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection. My main methodological interest lies in measurement, though I am also quite interested in graphical presentation of results and non-parametric regression models. Please feel free to poke around the site to see what I'm up to these days.
