I am a political scientist specializing in education politics and policy and an Assistant Professor of Education at Bowdoin College.

As a scholar-educator shaped by over a dozen years of teaching at the postsecondary and K-12 levels, I engage in teaching and scholarship through praxis, the iterative integration of theory, reflection, and action. My courses and research projects emerge through mutually beneficial collaborations with community partners, which support student learning, academic scholarship, and real-world problem-solving.

I research the politics of civic education curriculum and policy as sites for political socialization and engagement in a pluralistic U.S. democracy. My book project examines how civics curricula that focus on local, salient political content activate youth political engagement. New and ongoing projects include typologizing teachers' political and moral stances as street-level bureaucrats, tracing the impact of civics curricula on youth political outcomes, examining teacher neutrality in democratic classrooms, and developing a framework for social studies curriculum implementation policy.