I am a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at Duke University.
The main goal of my research is to understand how cultural and political preferences form early in life and persist into adulthood. I use quantitative and quasi-experimental methods to study how these preferences are structured and how early cultural differences shape people’s life decisions.
Working Papers
- 2026 The Politics of Aspiration:
Ideology as a Luxury Good in Occupational Choice - 2026 The Emerging Structure of Political Preferences in Childhood
- 2026 Values and Political Preferences in Childhood R&R at British Journal of Political Science
- 2025 Generational Imprinting: How Political Events Shape Cohorts
Publications
- 2026 The Promises and Pitfalls of Using Panel Data to Understand Individual Belief Change Political Psychology
- 2025 Discussion Frequency of Issues Captured in Common Survey Questions Sociological Science
- 2025 Measuring Movement in Cultural Landscapes Poetics
- 2024 Life-Course Transitions and Political Orientations Sociological Science
- 2022 The Organization of Political Belief Networks Social Science Research
- 2022 Religious Belief Alignment: The Structure of Cultural Beliefs from Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood Poetics