Celui-là tissera des toiles, l’autre dans la forêt par l’éclair de sa hache couchera l’arbre. L’autre, encore, forgera des clous, et il en sera quelque part qui observeront les étoiles afin d’apprendre à gouverner. Et tous cependant ne seront qu’un. Créer le navire ce n’est point tisser les toiles, forger les clous, lire les astres, mais bien donner le goût de la mer qui est un, et à la lumière duquel il n’est plus rien qui soit contradictoire mais communauté dans l’amour. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"One will weave the canvas; another will fell a tree by the light of his ax. Yet another will forge nails, and there will be others who observe the stars to learn how to navigate. And yet all will be as one. Building a boat isn’t about weaving canvas, forging nails, or reading the sky. It’s about giving a shared taste for the sea, by the light of which you will see nothing contradictory but rather a community of love." (Trans. by S.M. Colowick)

I've been fortunate to have the sort of teachers who give students a taste for the sea. They spanned many disciplines--political science, classics, engineering, philosophy--but they all shared an unashamed enthusiasm for their subject and a commitment to making their students push themselves beyond what they thought was possible. To the best of my ability, I do the same.

Please note: if you are applying to graduate courses at Oxford, you are welcome to list me as a potential supervisor; there is no need to secure permission from me in advance to do so.

Courses taught include: 

Upcoming: Intermediate Computational Tools for Social Scientists (Oxford graduates, Trinity 2024)

Upcoming: Causal Inference: Survey and Field Experiments (Oxford Spring School graduates, spring 2024)

Research Design in Comparative Political Science (Oxford graduates, Hilary 2023, Michaelmas 2023, Hilary 2024)

Comparative Government Core Course (Oxford graduates, Hilary 2023, Hilary 2024)

Introduction to Statistics (Oxford graduates, Michaelmas 2023)

Introduction to Computational Tools for Social Scientists (Berkeley graduates, Fall 2016 and Spring 2018; UC Davis graduates, Winter 2021; Oxford graduates, Trinity 2019; Trinity 2023, Hilary 2024)

Graduate Student Well-being (Davis graduates, Spring 2022)

Political Psychology and Public Policy (UC Berkeley Goldman School graduates, Fall 2021)

Identity and Discrimination in US Politics (Davis graduates, Fall 2019, Spring 2022; Davis undergraduates, Winter 2021, Spring 2022)

The Scientific Study of Politics (Davis undergraduates, Winter 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2022)

Women in US Politics (Davis undergraduates, Winter 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2022)

Political Psychology (Berkeley undergraduates, Fall 2015)

Elections and Democratic Accountability (Berkeley undergraduates, Spring 2015)

Introduction to Research Design and Methodology (Berkeley undergraduates, Fall 2014)

And finally—a treat since you made it here. My two favorite photos from graduate school—with former research assistants Marissa Lei Aclan and Ernesto Rojas, from whom I learned much—on our graduation day.