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Greetings! I am an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Purdue University and co-director of the JMK Experimental Social Science Research Lab. I received my PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Colorado's Institute of Behavioral Science.
My research focuses on the human dimensions of sustainable development policy. I am interested in questions of participation, deliberation, collective action, and public goods provision, particularly with respect to natural resource dilemmas in developing countries. I advocate a multi-method approach to research that combines quantitative causal inference methods with a qualitative understanding of local context. My work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and published in policy-oriented peer-reviewed journals, such as Nature Climate Change, Nature Sustainability, Ecological Economics, World Development, and Conservation Letters, as well as top disciplinary outlets, such as the American Journal of Political Science, the British Journal of Political Science, and Public Administration Review. |
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"A core goal of public policy should be to facilitate the development of institutions that bring out the best in humans."
-Elinor Ostrom |