I am an assistant professor of Political Science at Fordham University. My research and teaching interests are located at the intersection of scholarship on gender and sexuality, interest groups and social movements, and marginalized political identities in US politics. Integrating these fields allows me to ask questions that are central to the study of politics, such as: How and to what effect do particular groups become salient and legible political identity categories? Through what processes, both inside and outside of political institutions, are agendas of interests for groups developed? And how do agendas of certain interests come to be associated with particular groups in politics? Animating these three broad questions is concern for how it is that inequalities are produced both between and within groups, often with consequences for who is considered a member of the polity: people of color, women, those who do not confirm to binary gender norms, people living in poverty, people with disabilities, and those who are undocumented.
My peer-reviewed research has been published in Politics, Groups, and Identities, Politics & Gender, American Politics Research, Laws, Transgender Studies Quarterly, and New Political Science. Links to these articles can be found on the Publications page of this website.
Information about my book project, under contract with Oxford University Press, can be found under Research.
I am a member of the New York City chapter of Scholars Strategy Network and available for commentary on the politics of sexuality, gender, and race; intersectionality and critical race theory, and political movements. My writing for public audiences has been featured in the Washington Post's MonkeyCage. You can find links to those publications in the Public Commentary section of this website.
My peer-reviewed research has been published in Politics, Groups, and Identities, Politics & Gender, American Politics Research, Laws, Transgender Studies Quarterly, and New Political Science. Links to these articles can be found on the Publications page of this website.
Information about my book project, under contract with Oxford University Press, can be found under Research.
I am a member of the New York City chapter of Scholars Strategy Network and available for commentary on the politics of sexuality, gender, and race; intersectionality and critical race theory, and political movements. My writing for public audiences has been featured in the Washington Post's MonkeyCage. You can find links to those publications in the Public Commentary section of this website.