I am the Board of Visitors Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At UW, I helped start and now run the “Experimental Politics Workshop,” part of the department’s Methods, Experiments and Data (MEAD) Friday workshop series. The workshop began in 2014 and has hosted outside speakers as well as roundtables on issues related to experimentation, ethics, research transparency and design. The central focus of the workshop is a series of presentations by graduate students and faculty designed to yield feedback on their experimental designs before they are fielded. The workshop also hosts an annual “Pilot Grant” competition for graduate students designed to provide seed funding for pilot studies. At UW, I teach courses on Political Psychology, International Relations, Research Design and Experimental Methods. Currently, I serve as an associate editor at the Journal of Experimental Political Science.
My book, Fighting for Status: Hierarchy and Conflict in International Politics, was published in May 2017 by Princeton University Press and was awarded the 2017 Lepgold Prize from the Mortara Center at Georgetown University and the 2019 “Best Book Award” from the International Studies Association. It has been reviewed in Perspectives on Politics, World Politics, International Studies Review, Political Science Quarterly, Political Psychology, Politique étrangère, The Hindu and has been the subject of an H-DIPLO/ISSF roundtable.
My current work focuses on reputations in international relations, experimental methods and empathy in politics. You can read about some of my recent work (with Josh Kertzer) on public opinion and elites in world politics at Politico. A new book (co-authored with Ryan Brutger, Josh Kertzer & Chagai Weiss), Abstraction in Experimental Design, was published by Cambridge University Press’ Elements in Experimental Political Science series in October 2022.