I joined PoLIS in January 2018. Before joining the University of Bath, I was a College Fellow in the Department of Government at Harvard University, where I lectured and conducted research. I was also a Research Fellow in the Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP) at the Harvard Kennedy School in 2016-2017. I have a PhD in Political Science from Harvard University, an MSc in Comparative Politics (Europe) from the LSE, and an AB in Government from Dartmouth College. 

My research interests include gender and politics, political representation, and political parties, with a regional concentration in Western Europe. My book, Making Gender Salient: From Gender Quota Laws to Policy, was published in 2022 by Cambridge University Press as part of the Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics series. My research has appeared in journals including the American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, European Political Science Review, and Political Behavior.  I am an Editor at Legislative Studies Quarterly, where I handle comparative politics manuscripts. 

I have been honored to receive several awards for my research, including the CES Carolina de Miguel Moyer Young Scholar Award 2024 for the most significant contribution to the interdisciplinary study of Europe for a young scholar, the 2020 Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics and the 2023 Best Paper Award from the American Political Science Association's Women, Gender and Politics research section for my research on  the political consequences of the mental load, and the 2018 Pi Sigma Alpha / Franklin L. Burdette Prize for the best paper presented at the previous year’s meeting of the American Political Science Association for my article, "Why Are Gender Quota Laws Adopted by Men? The Role of Inter- and Intraparty Competition."

Other projects I am excited to be working on now explore the role of women and gender in populist radical right parties, the rise of femonationalism, public support for gender-egalitarian policies, and the impacts of gender quota laws on women's presence in cabinets worldwide.

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I am willing to supervise PhD students undertaking research on gender and politics, including topics related to participation, representation, political parties, and institutions. Topics of particular interest include gender quotas, household inequalities and the mental load, and women and gender in radical right parties.