Ph.D. Candidate
University of Western Ontario

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 am currently teaching Data Science for Politics at the University of Western Ontario. I have also taught Introduction to Public Policy at the University of Waterloo.

Please use the links at the top of the page to learn more about my research and teaching experience.