About
I am a Political Science PhD student at the University of Michigan. My research focuses on the relationship between social movements, constitutional development and democratization. I am interested in how, and under what circumstances, social movements become vehicles for constitutional reform and increased economic and political democracy. I also study how different social movement coalitions effect long-run governance outcomes and shape elite backlash to the prospect of increased democratic contestation. Specifically, I am interested in the relationship between Reconstruction, the Populist Movement and the imposition of anti-Democratic state constitutions in the American south in the late 19th century.
Fields of Study:
- Law, Courts and Politics
- Comparative Politics
- American Political Development
