CV
Education
August 2015-Present
Ph.D. Candidate, Syracuse University
Political Science, Major Field: Political Theory, Minor Field: Law and Courts
Dissertation: “Paradise Lost: The Effect of Judicial Review on Congressional Debate”
Committee: Keith Bybee (chair), Kenneth Baynes, Glyn Morgan
August 2015-May 2016
M.A., Syracuse University
Political Science, Major Field: Political Theory, Minor Field: Law and Courts
August 2013-May 2015
B.S. with Honors, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Major: Environmental Studies: Policy, Planning, and Law, Minor: Environmental Biology
Summa Cum Laude
Publications
Bybee, Keith J., and Laura E. Jenkins. (2020) "Free Speech, Free Press, and Fake News: What if the Marketplace of Ideas Isn’t About Identifying Truth?" in Helen Knowles and Brandon Metroka eds., Free Speech Theory: Understanding the Controversies, Peter Lang.
Research Interests
Healthcare Policy, Computational Text Analysis, Quantitative Analysis, Constitutional Discourse, Judicial Review, Supreme Court, Congress, Democratic Theory, Legal Theory
Research Appointments
February 2019-June 2019
Campbell Public Affairs Institute Research Associate
Department of Political Science, Syracuse University
May 2018-August 2018, May 2019-Present
Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Political Science, Syracuse University
Faculty Mentor: Keith Bybee
Academic Honors/Awards
2019
APSA Travel Grant
2019
APSA Dissertation Workshop Travel Grant
2019
Public Choice Society Student Fellow
2019
Kissel Summer Fellowship (Internal)
2019
Campbell Public Affairs Institute Mini-Grant (Internal)
2018, 2019
Syracuse University Political Science Summer Fellowship
2018
Kristi Andersen Award (Internal)
Conference Presentations
January 11, 2020
“‘You Lie!’: The Effect of Judicial Review on Congressional Debate over the Affordable Care Act”
Southern Political Science Association,
San Juan, Puerto Rico
March 16, 2019
“Paradise Lost: The Effect of Judicial Review on Congressional Deliberation over the Affordable Care Act’s Individual Mandate”
Public Choice Society
Louisville, Kentucky
March 8, 2019
“Paradise Lost: The Effects of Judicial Review on Commerce Clause Grounds on Congressional Debate”
Shawnee Trail Conference
Columbia, Missouri
Teaching Appointments
August 2015 – May 2016, August 2017– May 2019
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Courses:
Introduction to Political Theory (Taught Sections—Fall 2017, Spring 2019)
Introduction to American Government (Taught Sections—Spring 2018, Fall 2018)
American Slavery and the Holocaust (Grader)
Additional Training
2018
The Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research
2016
Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research
Skills
R
Quantitative Analysis, Web Scraping, and Content Analysis
Leadership and Departmental Service
March 16, 2019
Discussant at Public Choice Society Panel
Public Choice Society
Louisville, KY
May 2018-December 2018
Promotion and Tenure Committee Graduate Assistant
As a member of a Promotion and Tenure Committee, I collected teaching evaluations for an Associate Professor at Syracuse University and produced reports on this faculty member’s teaching for use by the committee and the department.
August 2017-Present
Teaching Associate, Future Professoriate Program
As a Teaching Associate in the Future Professoriate Program, I have hosted and organized workshops for the Political Science Department on teaching discussion sections, grading student work, and teaching controversial topics. I have also organized recruitment and welcome events for prospective and new graduate students entering the department as part of this appointment.
January 2018-April 2018
Undergraduate Thesis Reader
I served as the third reader on an undergraduate honors student’s thesis committee. My role on the committee was to help the student design and execute her statistical models.