I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside.

My research lies at the intersection of political psychology, public opinion, political behavior, and quantitative political methodology. I study how citizens form political attitudes, ideological preferences, and electoral choices, with particular attention to the psychological and perceptual foundations of mass opinion. A central theme of my work is how political contexts shape people’s perceptions of social inequality, socioeconomic conditions, and social and political groups, as well as how these perceptions influence subsequent political judgments and behavior.

I also work in quantitative political methodology. My methodological research focuses primarily on Bayesian inference and on approaches for addressing latent confounding in causal inference.