I'm an assistant professor of political science in the
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and
a senior research associate with the
Campbell Public Affairs Institute. I teach and
do research in American politics, with an emphasis on political
communication, political behavior, campaigns and elections, the mass media, public opinion, and
political psychology.
My research is especially concerned with the relationship between what political elites say and do and citizen attitudes and behavior. Within that broad focus, my scholarship contributes to the literatures on mass media behavior and effects, voting behavior, political participation, public opinion, and partisan realignment. Some of that work has appeared or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, Political Behavior, Political Communication, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and American Politics Research.
Information on my courses is here, my research projects here.