I am a Professor of Political Science at Tufts University. The focus of my writing and teaching is American politics. I mainly study US elections and civic participation. I earned a PhD from Harvard in 2011 and served on faculty at Yale from 2011-2017. In 2022, I was a recipient of the Emerson Collective Fellowship.

My second book, Politics is for Power, was published in 2020. My first book, Hacking the Electorate, was published in 2015. My peer-reviewed articles have been published in venues such as the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.   My public writings have appeared in New York Times, The Atlantic, Boston Globe, USA Today, and other outlets. I regularly testify in litigation involving election issues. 

I currently have research projects underway on election administration, the civic role of business leaders, vice policy, survey methodology, and viewpoint diversity in higher education.

Recent media:

Wall Street Journal Weekend Interview: Barton Swaim, "Where the Left Studies the Right," January 31, 2025. 

Op/ed: Eitan Hersh, "Ending Transportation for Private School Students is Wrong Move," Commonwealth Beacon, January 6, 2025. 

Interview: Nick Perrino, "Teaching Conservatism on a Liberal College Campus," The Free Speech Podcast, FIRE, August 29, 2024.

Links for Politics is for Power

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