I am currently the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, in the Department of Government at Harvard University. I am affiliated with the Institute of Quantitative Social Science. I direct the Program on Text Research.

I specialize in political methodology, with an interest in applied Bayesian statistics, ideal point estimation and the application of generalized linear models in political science. My substantive field is comparative politics, and I focus primarily on the United Kingdom.

I received my PhD from the University of Rochester, Department of Political Science. In March 2008, I defended my doctoral dissertation. I graduated in May 2008.

A .tex file template that I used to fulfill the "Preparation of Doctoral Thesis Guidelines" for the University of Rochester can be found here.

I am teaching Gov 50/Govt E 1005 in Fall 2012. More information here. Office hours are 10am--noon on Tuesdays (or by appointment)