I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the College of Charleston. I am also affiliated with Master of Environmental Studies and Sustainability (EVSS) and Master of Public Administration (MPA). I am an environmental policy scholar with research interests in collaborative governance, water governance, heat governance.

 

Previously, I held a postdoctoral researcher position at Heat Resilience Initiative and Climate Assessment for the Southwest at the University of Arizona focusing on heat resilience and governance research. I also held a postdoctoral position at the Center for Behavior, Institutions, and the Environment at Arizona State University, where I focused on behavioral research in an area of environment and climate. I earned my PhD in Government and Public Policy from the University of Arizona with a focus on collaborative water governance. I am a mixed-method scholar, employing game experiments, survey experiments, text analysis, and interview techniques. ​​​​​​​

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My work has been published (and forthcoming) in policy-oriented peer-reviewed journals, such as International Journal of the Commons, Ecology and Society, Journal of Climate Change and Health, Weather, Climate and Society, Environmental Management as well as disciplinary outlets, such as Public Management Review and Journal of Political Science Education.