I am an assistant professor in the department of Government at Cornell University. I study the politics of poverty, race and public policy in the United States. My research investigates the ways that public policy shapes the material and political lives of economically and racially marginalized denizens, as well as the ways that members of such groups affect policy and politics.
I am author of Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2018). My academic work is published or forthcoming in Political Behavior, Policy Studies Journal, the Journal of Health Politics,Policy and Law, Urban Affairs Review, Poverty and Public Policy, the Forum, the ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and Daedalus. My research has been supported by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Institute for Research on Poverty, and the Ford Foundation.
My public writing has been featured in many outlets including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Vox, Salon, the American Prospect, the Conversation, TalkPoverty and others. My public commentary has also appeared in many places including Vox, The Nation, Slate Magazine, ABC News, Jacobin Magazine, and Pacific Standard Magazine.
As an engaged scholar, I co-lead the Finger Lakes chapter of the Scholars Strategy Network, an organization focused on bringing academic research to policymakers, civil associations, and the media. I sat on the advisory board of the Cornell Prison Education Program (2015-18) and I teach in local correctional facilities. Prior to working at Cornell, I was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholar at the University of Michigan. I received a PhD from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree from Princeton University.
I am author of Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2018). My academic work is published or forthcoming in Political Behavior, Policy Studies Journal, the Journal of Health Politics,Policy and Law, Urban Affairs Review, Poverty and Public Policy, the Forum, the ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and Daedalus. My research has been supported by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Institute for Research on Poverty, and the Ford Foundation.
My public writing has been featured in many outlets including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Vox, Salon, the American Prospect, the Conversation, TalkPoverty and others. My public commentary has also appeared in many places including Vox, The Nation, Slate Magazine, ABC News, Jacobin Magazine, and Pacific Standard Magazine.
As an engaged scholar, I co-lead the Finger Lakes chapter of the Scholars Strategy Network, an organization focused on bringing academic research to policymakers, civil associations, and the media. I sat on the advisory board of the Cornell Prison Education Program (2015-18) and I teach in local correctional facilities. Prior to working at Cornell, I was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholar at the University of Michigan. I received a PhD from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree from Princeton University.
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