I am an Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy & Law at
Trinity College in
Hartford, Connecticut, researching immigration policy, health policy, urban politics, and civic engagement. My book Welcoming New Americans? Local Governments and Immigrant Incorporation
(University of Chicago Press, 2018) explains why cities welcome immigrants, and how these
efforts both promote
and restrict incorporation. I am also a co-editor of the volume, The Politics of New Immigrant
Destinations: Transatlantic Perspectives (Temple University Press, 2017).
Currently, I work with an interdisciplinary team of researchers on the AmerRicans' Conceptions of
Health Equity Study (ARCHES). We examine how people form and change their understandings of whose
health deserves society's attention and investment.
For research funding, I am grateful to the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
the Ruth Landes Memorial Fund, Time-Sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences (TESS), the Zeit
Foundation's Bucerius Scholarship in Migration Studies, and Harvard University's Center for American
Political Studies, Hauser Center for Non-Profit Organizations, Saguaro Seminar for Civic Engagement,
and Taubman Center for State and Local Government.
From 1998-2001, I worked for the Eurasia Foundation in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, ultimately
as Associate Country Director for the Foundation's Tbilisi, Georgia office. After completing a Masters
in Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School, I served from 2003-2005 as a Research Associate and then
as Associate Director of the Saguaro Seminar for Civic Engagement. I received a Ph.D. in Public Policy
from Harvard University in 2011.