Peer-Reviewed Publications

Journal Articles

  1. Nascent Political Ambition across Gender and Race
    With Andrea Junqueria, Diana O’Brien, Matthew Hayes, Brian Crisp, and Matthew Gabel
    Forthcoming at the British Journal of Political Science

  2. To Become a Real American: Acculturation Psychology and Republican Party Identification among Asian Americans and Latinos
    Politics, Groups, and Identities

  3. Open-Ended Survey Responses and Political Conceptualizations in a Polarized Era
    With Maxwell Allamong, Ben Beutel, and Paul Kellstedt
    Conditional Accept at the Journal of Politics

  4. Using Large Language Models to Improve Data Quality in Open-Ended Survey Responses
    With Maxwell Allamong and Paul Kellstedt
    Research & Politics

  5. Making Issues Matter: Local Media and Ideological Accountability
    With Erik Peterson
    Political Behavior

  6. The Declarations of Independents: How Party Images Have Changed in the Eyes of Non-Identifiers
    With Maxwell Allamong, Ben Beutel, and Paul Kellstedt
    Forthcoming at the American Journal of Political Science

  7. Explorative Research of Vocabularies in Business Résumés
    With Eun Soo Kim and Seok-Hoon You
    Language Information

Peer-Reviewed Edited Volumes

  1. The Racial Life of Country of Origin: How Nationality Constructs Belonging in U.S. Legal Immigration
    With Boyoon Lee
    In Oxford Intersections: Racism by Context, edited by Meena Dhanda, Nadia E. Brown, and Kouslaa T. Kessler-Mata. Oxford University Press. (under contract)

  2. Promoting Democratic Dispositions through Civil Discourse Assignments in a Large Introductory American Politics Course
    With Jennifer McCoy, Mike Evans, and Alex Leasure The De Gruyter-APSA Teaching Civic Engagement Series, edited by J. Cherie Strachan, Alison McCartney, Euiyoung Kim, Christopher Isike, and John Ishiyama. The De Gruyter. (under contract)

Other Publications

  1. “Monitoring Pretrial Reform in Harris County: Second Report of the Court-Appointed Monitor.”
    Independent Monitor for the Odonnell v. Harris County Decree. Durham, NC: Duke University School of Law, 2021.
    (Media: Houston Chronicle)

  2. “Evaluation of Rural Regional Public Defender Office Initiatives.”
    Texas Indigent Defense Commission. College Station, TX: Public Policy Research Institute, Texas A&M University, 2022.

Selected Working Papers

  1. Culture or Security? How Gender Trumps Geopolitics in Shaping Support for Trade with Strategic Partners
    With Boram Lee
    (Supported by the Women & Politics Fund, American Political Science Association)

  2. The Impact of Business Engagement in Refugee Hiring on Consumer Attitudes and Social Inclusion
    With Minjee Sun and Boyoon Lee
    (Supported by the Social Impact Community Small Grants, University of Iowa)

  3. Beyond Enforcement: How Presidential Leadership Shapes Employment-Based Legal Immigration in the United States
    With Boyoon Lee

  4. Spatial Modeling in Neighborhood and Crime Study
    With Young-An Kim

  5. Reimagining Black Ideology: Understanding Ideological Subgroup Variations in the Black Community
    With Kevin Sparrow

  6. Political Geography, Electoral System, and Political Ambition
    With Sarah Anzia, Matt Gabel, and Jonathan Rodden

  7. Joining the Party: Polarization and Partisan Incorporation

  8. Beyond Democgraphics: Minority Owned-Business and Minority Political Participation and Ambition (Supported by 2025 Advanding Research Grant for Early Career Scholars, American Political Science Association)

Book Project

  1. The American Voice: Polarization and the Public in Their Own Words With Max Allamong and Paul Kellstedt