I am a political scientist, computational social scientist, and methodologist studying Latino political behavior, race and democracy, and voting rights and electoral institutions. My work is organized around questions of democracy, political power, institutional design, and the conditions that make democratic life more robust and competitive.

My research spans three substantive areas. The first is Latino political behavior, including Latino support for Trump, Latino conservatism, and the political dynamics that shape behavior and coalition change within the Latino electorate. The second is race, democracy, and political power, including my book project, Herrenvolk Democracy: Race, Exclusion, and the American Political Order. The third is voting rights, electoral institutions, and democratic competition, including developing computational tools and theoretical frameworks to study voting rights, democratic competition, and electoral power.

I am concluding a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where I advanced research on multiracial democracy and Latino political behavior, served as Co-Principal Investigator on a $100,000 Democracy Initiative Catalyst Grant, and led an interdisciplinary working group on multiracial democracy that brought together eight tenured faculty members and three postdoctoral scholars.

In the upcoming academic year, I will join Harvard Law School as a postdoctoral fellow with the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice, where I will continue developing an interdisciplinary research agenda at the intersection of law, policy, social science, computational analysis, and democratic theory.

Background

Born and raised in South Tucson, Arizona, I began my academic journey at Pima Community College before transferring to the University of Arizona. I later earned my Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame.