I am on the 2026-27 academic job market.

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. I study race and ethnic politics with a focus on American public opinion on foreign policy. My research focuses on how Americans’ perceptions of their own race and the race of others shape their attitudes toward domestic and international politics.

Job Market Paper

• Switching Sides: Choice Structure, Race, and American Support for Foreign Aid
  
  [Abstract] [PDF]

  How do country race and choice structure shape white Americans’ support for foreign aid? I argue that omnibus questions collapse varied components into a single aggregate evaluation, making conditional opposition appear categorical. In a preregistered survey experiment, non-Hispanic white Americans evaluated a $50 million omnibus aid proposal for a Black-majority or white-majority country and then considered the same seven programs separately. Only 36% support the omnibus proposal, but 89% support at least one component, including 76% of omnibus opponents. Respondents share a common preference ordering of programs and differ primarily in how far down they extend support. The country-race cue shifts these funding thresholds conditional on ethnocentrism rather than reorganizing the hierarchy. Moreover, the race-by-ethnocentrism interaction is substantially larger for the omnibus than for the itemized programs. Omnibus measures therefore conceal a coalition of conditional supporters while displaying sharper ethnoracial division than the underlying individual component choices reveal.

Submitted Manuscripts

• Race Beyond Borders: White Americans' Racial Perceptions Abroad
  
  [Abstract] [PDF]

  What country traits do White Americans associate with race abroad? Existing research shows that racial cues shape White Americans’ support for foreign policy. However, less is known about how a country’s racial composition shapes White Americans’ expectations of country traits. Using two vignette experiments, I measure political, economic, and social trait ascriptions to hypothetical Asian, Black, and White countries. The first experiment randomly assigns race to a hypothetical country with no additional information about country attributes. The results demonstrate that respondents systematically ascribe different traits to countries by race, with effects moderated by ethnocentrism. The second experiment randomizes both race and country-traits to assess whether racialized perceptions persist when trait information is provided. Specifying country traits attenuates perceived differences between White and Black countries. Race operates as a bundled set of expectations, and studies of racial perceptions of foreign countries should better theorize how race matters.

Working Papers

• The Nation Within a Nation: A Minimal Measure of Black Nationalism
  (with Darius Cozart, LaFleur Stephens-Dougan, and Ismail White)

Research in Progress

• Unbundling Ideology: Race, Economic Principle, and American Support for Foreign Aid
  

• Internalized Colonial Hegemony: Conceptualization and Measurement in Postcolonial Societies
  (with Maria Nagawa and Rikio Inouye)

• Lost in Translation: Racial Identity and Perceptions of Democracy Abroad
  (with Rikio Inouye and Burcu Kolcak)

• One Race? Dehomogenizing Latine Voting in the Age of Populism
  (with Nia Atkins, Tali Mendelberg, and Alisson Ramos)