Research

Overview

My research is focused on the edges of democratic politics. Through highlighting democratic borders created by prisons and jails, substate entities like territories and the federal district, and other markers of citizenship, my work explicates how notions of ‘the people’ are bounded and reinforced.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

2024. “Race, Democracy, and Empire: Delegates to Congress from D.C. and the Territories,” with Austin Bussing. Polity, forthcoming.

2023. “‘This Unfortunate Development’: Incarceration and Democracy in W.E.B. Du Bois,” Political Theory 51 (2): 382-412.

• Paper Awarded Honorable Mention in the 2021 Law and Political Economy Writing Prize, Harvard Law School Political Economy Association

2023. “Do Reserved Seats Work? Evidence from Tribal Representatives in Maine,” with Cameron DeHart. State Politics & Policy Quarterly 23 (2): 283-305.

2021. “Representation on the Periphery: The Past and Future of Nonvoting Members of Congress,” American Political Thought 10 (3): 390-418. [open access version]

Public Scholarship

2023. “Delegates to the House of Representatives: Who Are They and What Do They Do?” Understanding Congress Podcast, American Enterprise Institute.

2022. “If seated, a Cherokee delegate could make a big difference in Congress.” The Washington Post.