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My research examines the politics of oppression in the United States, focusing on race, class, public opinion, political behavior, elections, the welfare state, and the criminal justice system.
 
I am the author of Class Attitudes in America, which was published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press. My scholarship has also been published or accepted for publication in leading journals in not only my home discipline of political science but also criminology, law, public policy, psychology, and sociology. 
 
My scholarship has won awards from the Political Psychology Section, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Caucus, and the State Politics and Policy Section of my discipline's flagship professional association, the American Political Science Association.


From 2023 to 2025, I was a Visiting Scholar at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.


I have received research funding from the Boston Foundation, Social Science Research Council, Time-Sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences, the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences, the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, the Maxwell School's Campbell Institute at Syracuse University, and the Initiative on Cities as well as the Institute for Health System Innovation & Policy at Boston University.​