I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Emory University. My research and teaching interests include judicial processes and behavior, constitutional law, Congress-Court interactions, and congressional politics. My minor field is political methodology.

My dissertation, Anticipation and Retaliation: The Impact of the Supreme Court on Congressional Decisionmaking, asks, (1) "under what conditions will Congress refrain from enacting legislation because of anticipation of negative treatment by the Supreme Court" and (2) what are the substantive effects of legislation passed in response to the constitutional decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court?

Other research projects include analyses of the impact of public opinion on Supreme Court decision-making and of strategic behavior in the U.S. Courts of Appeals and the development of a hearing-based measure of the congressional agenda. 

During the 2008-2009 academic year, I will be in Washington, D.C. serving as a Congressional Fellow through the American Political Science Association's Congressional Fellowship Program.