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Welcome! I am a political scientist and criminologist, and I serve as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice and the Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Alabama. I study how interactions with criminal justice institutions affect political participation. I also study the how convictions or criminal records shape socioeconomic outcomes and the consequences of prison conditions for both incarcerated individuals and correctional officers. You can view my CV here.

My research has been published in Electoral Studies, Punishment & Society, the British Journal of Criminology, the Journal of Criminal Justice, and other outlets. I also have “revise and resubmit decisions” from Policy Studies Journal and Political Behavior for current working papers. My work has been generously funded by Arnold Ventures, the National Science Foundation, the American Political Science Association, the Roper Center for Public Opinion, and the Population Center at Cornell.