Ph.D. Candidate
University of Western Ontario

Hello!

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario. 

My doctoral dissertation (in progress), titled "Provincial Party Policy Priorities 1945-2020: The Influence of Party Systems", argues provincial party system dynamics are vital to understanding the construction of party policy agendas over time. I classified an original dataset of over 400 provincial party platforms by fine-tuning a Large Language Model (LLM). This project is supported by a SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship.

I am broadly interested in Canadian politics, urban and local politics, and public policy. Methodologically, I rely on both quantitative (e.g., regression, quantitative text analysis) and qualitative (e.g., archival research) techniques. ​

I have taught Introduction to Public Policy and Data Science for Politics (third year undergraduate) courses.