Current Projects

Maps in Their Heads

If all politics is local, understanding politics requires understanding how people interpret their environments. This project develops new ways to measure personally meaningful places, including map-drawing tools embedded in surveys, and tests how perceptions of place shape political attitudes.

Related working papers

• How Does Politics Affect Perceptions of Place? The Effect of Campaigns on Perceptions about Immigration (with Jake Bowers, Jane Green, and Ed Fieldhouse).

Dying to Belong: Citizenship, Military Service, and Patriotism

This book project examines the meaning and value of citizenship today, focusing on the long history of non-citizens who serve in the U.S. armed forces and are granted citizenship. Using national survey data, the project asks when Americans view service as sufficient for membership, and how those views compare across other forms of service.

Related working papers

• Gender and Perceptions of American Patriots.

Other projects

• Unwavering Support for Expatriate Voting? Resident Citizens’ Responses to Mobilization and Uncertainty (with Jair A. Moreira and Hyo-Won Shin).
• Is Six Degrees of Separation Five Too Many? A Research Note about Extended Contact (with Younghyun Lee).
• Thick Versus Thin Assimilation: American Public Opinion about Language Usage and Citizenship (with Morris Levy and Jack Citrin).