I am a Political Science PhD candidate at the University of Missouri.

I study American Politics with an emphasis on state government.  More specifically, I study how legislatures are influenced by rules and how institutions influence each other.

​My dissertation emphasizes the ways that term limits have influenced state legislatures. Specifically, I test preexisting theories of changes to legislative careers, institutional structures, and relations with the governor.  

When I am not studying state legislatures I love to visit them! (This is the Nebraska Capitol.) 

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