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Currently, I am a Senior Research Associate at the Washington State Center for Court Research, part of the Washington State Administrative Office of the Courts.
Previously, I was a Master Instructor of Political Science and the LSAC Prelaw Advisor at Missouri Southern State University and the Head Coach and Coordinator of the University’s Intercollegiate Mock Trial Program. While at Missouri Southern, I taught courses in United States government, Constitutional Law, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Law and Society, and Law and Public Policy.
I earned my Ph.D. in political science at Washington State University. I specialize in judicial politics and public law, with a broader focus on American institutions, politics, and processes of government.
My research focused on judicial politics and processes. Specifically, my research program investigated how judges’ racial, ethnic, gender, and socioeconomic class identities and backgrounds affect the ways the judges’ view their role as judges, their conceptualization of “the rule of law,” and what it means to be a “good” judge.