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Director, Professional Master's Programs, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
Associate Professor of Political Science, Global Affairs, and Public Policy (2022-)
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy - University of Toronto (2014-2022)
Max Weber Post-Doctoral Fellow - European University Institute (2013-2014)
Princeton University - PhD in Politics and Social Policy (August, 2013)
General examinations in Comparative Politics and Formal & Quantitative Methods
(May, 2010)
Doctoral dissertation: Identity and Information: Voter heuristics and support for redistributive policy
Fordham University - MA, Political Science, Comparative and International Politics: 2008
Fordham University - BA, Political Science (major) and Classical Civilizations (minor): 2007, summa cum laude and in cursu honorum
National University of Ireland, Galway, Aug.-Dec. 2005
Comparative politics, European politics
Identity, ethnicity and immigration
Social policy, welfare state politics
Research methods and causal inference
Cross national survey research, public opinion formation
Group Interests, Individual Attitudes: How group membership shapes attitudes to the welfare state. 2021. Oxford University Press.
"The Politics of Part-Time Work: Gender, Employment, and Preferences for Redistribution." 2022. Politics & Gender. 18(2): 321-358. (with David Pedulla)
"Discrimination and Multiculturalism in Canada: Exceptional or incoherent public attitudes?" 2020. American Review of Canadian Studies.
"The public face of interest group lobbying on immigration: who responds to and who ignores what they say." 2020. Journal of European Social Policy. Forthcoming. (with Md. Mujahedul Islam and Justin Savoie)
"Material interests, identity, and linked fate in three countries." 2020. British Journal of Political Science. Forthcoming. Replication Data
"Fiscal burdens and knowledge of immigrant selection criteria." 2020. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Forthcoming. (with Sophie Borwein) Replication Data
"Income Measures in Cross-National Surveys: Problems and Solutions." (with Grigore Pop-Eleches). Political Science Research and Methods. April, 2018. 6(2): 355-363. Replication Data
"Competition and Solidarity: Union Members and Immigration in Europe." 2016. West European Politics. 39(4): 688-709. (pdf of related working paper)
"Sectoral Economies, Economic Contexts and Attitudes toward Immigration." 2013. Journal of Politics. 75(1): 17-35. (with Rafaela Dancygier).
"Economic Performance, Perceptions, and Retrospective Voting: Mechanisms of Electoral Accountability." 2013. Journal of Politics. 75(4), (with Michael Becher).
"Attitudes toward Immigration in Good Times and Bad" in Mass Politics in Tough Times: Opinion, Votes and Protest in the Great Recession. 2013. Nancy Bermeo and Larry Bartels, Eds. Chapter 6. New York: Oxford University Press, (with Rafaela Dancygier)
Immigration policy, immigrants and political trust (with Anna Kopec)
When are Immigrants Charged? Perceived Deservingness in Public Healthcare (with Jeremy Ferwerda)
Trust and Technology: Measuring performance amid expectations (with Blake Lee-Whiting)
Statistics for Political Scientists, 2018, 2019, 2019,
University of Toronto: PhD class covering basic causal inference, data analysis, probability theory, and regression
Comparative Public Policy, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019
University of Toronto: School of Public Policy and Governance class for second year MPP students
Comparative Public Policy, 2014, 2015, 2016
University of Toronto: Political Science Class for third year undergraduates
Democracy and Responsiveness in Europe, 2016, 2017
University of Toronto: Fourth year undergraduate and MA/PhD course
Max Weber Teaching Certificate
Teaching training at the European University Institute and the London School of Economics
Democracy, 2011
Princeton University: Teaching Assistant for Carles Boix and Nolan McCarty in an undergraduate politics and public policy course
African Politics, 2011
Princeton University: Teaching Assistant for Jennifer Widner in an undergraduate politics course
Quantitative Methods in Political Science III, 2010
Princeton University: Teaching Assistant for Kosuke Imai in the third course in a four course graduate politics sequence
Senior Thesis Writing Group, 2012-2013
Princeton University: Leader for a year-long series of workshops and regular writing/editing sessions for undergraduates
Quantitative/Analytical Political Science Consultant, 2012-2013
Princeton University: Consultant for undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty associated with the Politics Department and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Princeton Data and Statistical Services: Statistics and computing tutor, 2010-2013
Princeton University: Consultant for students and faculty doing independent research
McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning teaching transcript program, 2011-2012
Completed training in a variety of teaching strategies
Princeton Junior Summer Institute: Statistics Tutor, 2009
Tutored undergraduates in an introduction to statistics course
“Knowledge of Selectivity and Support for Immigration in Canada." (with Sophie Borwein) Presented at the 2018 Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA.
“Group Interests, Individual Attitudes." Presented at the 2018 Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA.
“Fiscal Burdens and Knowledge of Selection Criteria in Canada" (with Sophie Borwein) Presented at the 2018 Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, IL
“Federal systems, decentralization, and heuristics" Presented at the 2017 Canadian Political Science Association, Toronto, ON.
“Risk of Unemployment among High-Skilled Workers and the Racialization of Welfare Support" Presented at the 2016 Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association. San Francisco, CA
“Interest Groups and the Need for Targeted Messaging in Three Countries." Presented at the 2016 Annual Conference of Europeanists. Philadelphia, PA
“Interest Groups and Immigration Attitudes in Seven Countries." Presented at the 2015 Meeting of the American Political Science Association. San Francisco, CA
“European Integration and Responsiveness Inequality." Presented at the 2015 General Conference of European Consortium for Political Research. Monteral, QC
“Interest Groups, Rhetoric, and Immigration Attitudes." Presented at the 2015 Meeting of the European Political Science Association, Vienna, Austria
"Interest Groups and Immigration Attitudes in Four Countries." Presented at the 2015 Workshop on Comparative Approaches to the Study of Immigration, Ethnicity, and Religion, Chapel Hill, NC.
"Unequal Responsiveness in Europe." (with Zoe Lefkofridi). Presented at the 2014 Workshop on Democratic Responsiveness in an Era of Rising Inequality, University of Geneva. Geneva Switzerland.
"Competition and Solidarity: Union Members and Immigration in Europe." Presented at the 2014 Meeting of the European Political Science Association. Edinburgh, UK
"Competition and Solidarity: Union Members and Immigration in Europe." Presented at the 2014 Max Weber Conference of the European University Institute. Fiesole, Italy
“Identity and Interests" Presented at the 2013 Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Chicago, IL.
“Identity, Interregional Redistribution, and Decentralization." (with Francesc Amat) Presented at the 2013 Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, IL.
“The Politics of Eastern European Migration to the United Kingdom." Invited presentation at the University of Dayton. March, 2013. Dayton, OH.
“Identity Mobilization and Redistributive Preferences: Evidence from a Survey Natural Experiment." (with Francesc Amat) Accepted for the 2012 Meeting of the American Political Science Association (canceled due to weather). New Orleans, LA.
“Identity and Interests." Presented at the 2012 Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, IL.
“Identity and Interests in the United Kingdom." Presented at the 2012 NYU-CESS Experimental Political Science Conference. New York, NY.
“Sectoral Economies, Economic Contexts and Attitudes toward Immigration." (with Rafaela Dancygier) Presented at the 2011 Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Seattle, WA.
“Economic Performance, Perceptions, and Retrospective Voting: Mechanisms of Electoral Accountability" (with Michael Becher) Presented at the 2011 Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, IL.
“Competition and Solidarity: Union Members and Immigration in Europe." Presented at the 2011 Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, IL.
“Attitudes toward Immigration in Good Times and Bad." (with Rafaela Dancygier) Presented at the 2011 Oxford University Conference on Reactions to the Economic Crisis. Oxford, UK
“Competition and Solidarity: Union Members and Immigration in Europe." Presented at the 2010 Center for Migration and Development Work In Progress Series, Princeton, NJ.
“Economic Performance, Perceptions, and Retrospective Voting." (with Michael Becher) Presented at the 2010 Summer Meeting of the Society for Political Methodology. Iowa City, IA.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Development Grant (Co-Applicant, with Julie Moreau) 2020-2022
– Project on linked fate among LGBTQ Americans and Canadians
Toronto-Manchester Joint Research Grant (with Maria Sobolewska and Robert Ford), 2019-2020
Munk School SSHRC Institutional Grant. 2019
Connaught New Researcher Award and New Researcher Award Top-up, 2015
Funded RA coding of interest group rhetoric about immigration and Survey experiments in seven countries
University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2013
Supported work on merging survey and census data in the UK (with Rafaela Dancygier)
Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, Spring Research Grant, 2012
Supported interviews of politicians and political experts concerning ethnic politics in Bratislava, Slovkia
Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Summer Grant, 2012
Supported travel for interviews of political elites in Bratislava, Slovakia and purchase of archived public opinion reports.
Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, Spring Research Grant, 2011
Funded an original survey experiment concerning ethnic and regional inequalities in the United Kingdom
Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Summer Grant, 2011
Supported interviews of politicians and political activists in the United Kingdom
Global Network on Inequality Fellowship, 2010
Funded summer research at the Juan March Institute, Madrid, Spain
Princeton University Politics Social Policy Fellowship, 2008-2013
Fordham University Graduate Fellowship, 2007-2008
Phi Beta Kappa (Fordham University, 2007)
Pi Sigma Alpha (Fordham University, 2006)
American Political Science Association
Midwest Political Science Association
Reviewer for American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Czech Science Foundation, Electoral Studies, European Journal of Political Research, The Journal of Politics, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Political Behavior, and Work and Occupations
Co-organizer: Multidisciplinary Research Workshop: Taxation and representation. Fiesole, Italy. November 13, 2013.
Grigore Pop-Eleches, 2012
Kosuke Imai, 2009
Costas Panagopoulos, 2007-2008
Jeff Cohen and José Alemán, 2006