Welcome.
I am an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. I teach classes in the areas of judicial politics and public law, and my current research focuses on the quantitative examination of federal courts.
In August 2009, I received my Ph.D. in political science from Washington University in St. Louis. While at Wash U, I worked with Andrew D. Martin, James F. Spriggs, II, Lee Epstein, Pauline Kim, and Margo Schlanger and was a graduate student associate in the Center for Empirical Research in the Law (CERL) at Washington University School of Law. Prior to graduate schoool, I received a B.A. with honors in political science from the University of Florida in 2001 and a J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law in 2004. I am a member of the North Carolina Bar (inactive), and I grew up in beautiful western Montana.
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