My substantive research interests focus on the politics of authoritarian regimes (mass media, public opinion, information control, internal dynamics), transitional justice, democratization, and democratic backsliding. In quantitative methodology, I am interested in research design and causal inference in experiments and observational studies.
My current research investigates the long-run effects of book censorship in Nazi Germany, impediments to transitional justice in post-war West Germany due to the presence of judges and prosecutors with ties to the Nazi regime, promotion decisions in the judiciary of the Third Reich, and how state violence in the past interacts with contemporary repression to shape regime support in Putin's Russia.
My work has been published or is forthcoming in journals such as the Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Public Administration Review, Political Analysis, Comparative Political Studies, and International Studies Quarterly.
I am an Associate Editor of the Journal of Experimental Political Science (JEPS). With Quintin Beazer, I organize the Virtual Workshop on Authoritarian Regimes (VWAR) and a yearly mini-conference during the SPSA meeting on the Politics of Authoritarian Regimes.
