Welcome
Welcome! I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at The Ohio State University and am currently in the process of completing my dissertation, entitled Legislative Party Institutionalization in New Democracies: The Case of Poland, which I plan to defend in the fall of 2006 (for more information, please see the “Research” page). I also have an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2000) and a B.A. in International Affairs from James Madison University (1996).
I am beginning the second of two years as a Visiting Instructor/Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. While at Denison I have taught courses in comparative politics, including “Comparative Politics of Developed States,” “Politics of Eastern Europe” and “Politics of European Integration,” as well as the department’s required course in research methods, “Analyzing Politics.” I also served as co-advisor of Denison’s Model European Union group, which participated in the Midwest Model EU Simulation at IUPUI in April of 2006. This summer I am serving as faculty advisor for a student conducting summer research on EU enlargement through the Denison Young Scholars program.
My research and teaching interests in comparative politics focus on Europe, broadly construed, and include: political parties, public opinion, voting behavior, political elites, legislatures, mass media, corruption, democratization, and European integration. I have also taught courses in research methods and statistics at both Ohio State and Denison and have particular interests and experience in: elite interviews, roll call vote data, survey research, experimentation, panel data and content analysis.