Mentees
In this section, you can find more information about my current and former undergrad and grad mentees, at every stage in the professional process. I can vouch that they are all great! Check out their work below.

Nick Campos
Ph.D. candidate
​University of Minnesota

Research interests: ​political psychology, affective polarization, social groups, measurement.

Dan Duchaine
Ph.D. student
​University of Minnesota

Research interests: space security, great power politics

Amina Hasan
Ph.D. student
​University of Maryland

Research interests: ​ Religion & Politics, Political Behavior, American Politics, and Social Movements

Taylor Hvidsten
Ph.D. candidate
​University of Minnesota

Research interests: ​ Social media and influencers, podcasts, political communication, experiments, quantitative description

Deniz Kaptan
Ph.D. candidate
​University of Minnesota

Research interests: Religion & Politics, Political Economy, Comparative Politics

Emily Lucinda Kurtz
Visiting Assistant Professor of Statistics
Carleton College

Research interests: ​ American political economy, political methodology and data science, local politics, environmental politics

Jong Hyun (Jake) Lee
Ph.D. student
​University of Minnesota

Research interests: International political economy, strategic communication, LLMs, global governance and transparency

Sarah Musgrave
Ph.D. candidate
​University of Minnesota

Research interests: ​ Representation, gender and politics, U.S. Congress, federalism

Ezgi Ozcelik
Ph.D. Candidate
​University of Minnesota

Research interests: ​  state-business relations, business political power, international and comparative political economy, impact of local government programs

Carly Potz-Nielsen
Assistant Professor
​Georgia Tech

Research interests: ​ international finance, capital controls, illicit capital flows, measurement