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I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University. Before joining SFU, I held several prestigious fellowships including the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship at Duke University and the Visiting Democracy Fellowship at Harvard University's Ash Center. I also received a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship at McGill University. My research primarily focuses on the ways inequalities shape communication and action, particularly how these dynamics produce unequal political influence among members of social groups. I specialize in political communication, deliberation and democratic innovation, gender politics, and the politics of racial, ethnic, and settler-colonial contexts. Lately, I am exploring the impacts of changing technologies and digital communication forms on inequalities in communicative influence and their implications for collective decision-making and democratic legitimacy. Methodologically, I am drawn to quantitative methods including machine learning advancements, scaling, and dimensional analysis, as well as experimental design.
Department of Philosophy