I am interim department chair and assistant professor of political science at Arkansas State University with interests in comparative public administration, political economy, political methodology, and public policy. Starting in Fall 2022, I am also the founding director of the Institute for Rural Initiatives. I am an affiliate faculty with the Center for No Boundary Thinking at A-State. I formerly served as the Research Director in the MIT Election Data and Science Lab, where I managed applied research on the scientific study of elections. I was previously an affiliate faculty member with the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science. I grew up on Crowley’s Ridge in the Arkansas Delta.
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PhD in Political Science, 2014
Texas A&M University
MA in Political Science, 2009
Arkansas State University
BA in Political Science, 2007
Arkansas State University
Courses & Workshops
The government and politics of primarily sub-Saharan Africa, involves study of the people as well as their political institutions
Theory, practice, and analysis of foreign policy, with a focus on the United States and an emphasis on contemporary issues and basic ideas governing American foreign policy
Various approaches to the study of international politics
Learn how to typset beautiful scientific documents
Preparation for and participation in model United Nations
Introduction to the discipline of political science, its subfields, and to the use of the social scientific method and logical inquiry
The constitution, government, and politics of the United States
Major Middle Eastern political systems, with concentration on their common characteristics and major differences
This course is designed to provide an overview of the literature on Comparative & International Political Economy
An introduction to spatial econometrics including topics such as contagion, clustering, interdependence, and spatial networks; various modeling strategies and software applications are covered