I am currently an Assistant Professor, in the Department of Government at Harvard Univerity. I am affiliated with the Institute of Quantitative Social Science.

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. My graduation was 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.

In Spring of 2010, I am teaching Gov 50.