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I am an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where I study the U.S. Congress, political parties, and American political history. I have authored two books about legislative power dynamics: Building the Bloc (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and Divided Parties, Strong Leaders (University of Chicago Press, 2025). I am currently writing a third book, tentatively titled Legislating Rights: Congress and the Making of American Indian Law, that details legislative efforts to make — and remake — twentieth-century federal Indian law.  

I received my Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley’s Department of Political Science in 2014. From 2014-2016, I was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at Harvard University.