Hi there,

I am Associate Professor of Quantitative Political Science Research Methods at Nuffield College and the University of Oxford. Before joining Nuffield, I served as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. I hold a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and was a Postdoctoral Prize Fellow in Politics at Nuffield.

I am currently working on a book project on appearance-based discrimination in politics, and have recently taught classes on political psychology and public policy, identity politics, statistics and research design, women in politics, and computational methods. The rest of the site describes my research and teaching experience in more detail.

Before I started graduate school, I worked for a few years in public health and education. When I'm not working, I like reading fiction (recent fave: “She Who Became the Sun” by Shelley Parker-Chan) and non-fiction (recent fave: “The Emperor of All Maladies” by Siddhartha Mukherjee), traveling (especially by sailboat or motorcycle), working up a sweat (even better with friends), eating (most anything), and watching shitty action movies (I know, just when you were starting to like me. Look, no one's perfect.) If you've ever done more than two of those things at the same time, let's definitely be friends. 

Drop me a line if I've left anything out, and thanks for stopping by. 

--R