I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Alaska Anchorage. I teach the Political Science Senior Seminar, Introduction to American Politics, and upper-division courses relating to Alaska, Indigenous politics, and the Arctic region.

Overall, my research concerns institutional development, democracy, and the state. In Alaska, my research focuses on the politics of expertise and inequality amid environmental change. I am especially interested in how democratic institutions can be structured to make use of different types of knowledge (i.e., expert knowledge among bureaucratic policymakers and local knowledge among those affected by policies). So far, I have approached these questions historically and theoretically, and I am now engaged in directly relating these ideas to fisheries policy.

I received my PhD in Political Science at UC Berkeley in 2021. My dissertation uses game theory and historical case studies to investigate the development of legal authority in colonial British America and the early United States. Prior to UC Berkeley, I attended Reed College, where I majored in Political Science and Economics.