I am an Associate Professor of Sociology and Politics at New York University and a Faculty Affiliate at NYU’s Center for Data Science. Relying on survey methods, computational text analysis, and experimental research, my work applies insights from cultural sociology to the study of politics in the United States and Europe, with a particular focus on nationalism, populism, and the rise of the radical right. My most notable scholarly articles on these topics have appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Comparative Political Studies, the American Sociological Review, the Annual Review of Sociology, Social Forces, and the British Journal of Sociology.
In addition to my research and teaching, I serve as a Deputy Editor of Sociological Science and Editorial Team member of Nations and Nationalism. I was previously on the editorial boards of the American Sociological Review and Social Science Research and served as a Consulting Editor at the American Journal of Sociology. I am also a member of Council for the Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. At NYU, I co-organize the Political Polarization and Radicalization Working Group at the Institute for Public Knowledge and frequently participante in the Identities & Ideologies Project and the Sociology of Culture Workshop.
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