I am Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Political Science at the University of Florida.
I study race and racism in international politics, global inequality, migration policy, forced displacement, and international order. My published and forthcoming work appears in the American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Political Analysis, and elsewhere.
My first book (order here!), Undesirable Immigrants: Why Racism Persists in International Migration, was published by Princeton University Press in its International History and Politics series in August 2022. The book received a 2023 Best Book Award from the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics section of the American Political Science Association. It was recently profiled in Mother Jones. I also talked about it on the New Books in Political Science podcast.
I am completing a second book, Hierarchies of Worth: Race, Scarcity, and the Politics of Costly Action, which argues that international order distributes not only power and rights, but also the political costs states are willing to bear for different populations.
I received a Ph.D. from the Ohio State University, an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics in International Relations (Research), and a B.A. from the Johns Hopkins University in International Studies and Political Science. I am a proud native of Des Moines, Iowa: one of the coolest cities in the world.
Prospective Ph.D. and M.A. applicants: please see the Prospective students section on my Contact page before emailing.
Recent
- June 2026. Reliable Panel Regression: A Default Workflow for Slow-Moving, Mismeasured Variables — new working paper, with companion R package
ferobust. - June 2026. Scarcity, Strategy, and the Racialized Politics of Refugee Admission forthcoming at The Journal of Politics. [preprint]
- September 2025. Traces of the Past (with Hannah Alarian and Michael Bernhard) wins Best Paper Award, APSA European Politics and Society section.
- September 2024. Barrier or Bridge? Border Walls’ Varied Impacts on Terrorist Group Diffusion (with Nazli Avdan) published in Conflict Management and Peace Science.
Headshot by Keely Rosenberg Photography.