Welcome

I am the Andrew J. McKenna Family College Professor in the Department of Political Science and Concurrent Professor in the Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Notre Dame.

My areas of specialty are American politics and political methodology. In American politics I study legislative institutions and political representation, public policy diffusion, and state politics. My methodology interests include network inference and the interpretation and communication of statistical analyses.

I co-direct the Representation and Politics in Legislatures Lab. I am also a co-editor of Legislative Studies Quarterly and co-editor of Cambridge Studies in American Legislatures.