RESEARCH

Dissertation

My dissertation, Intimately Bound: Injustice & and the Foster System, examines the foster systems in England and the U.S. as political institutions, and subjects these systems to sustained criticisms of injustice.

To properly understand injustice in the contemporary foster system, I argue that we must correct a conceptual oversight about the definitive power of the system and how it is typically employed: the foster system engages in coercive relational intervention. More specifically, it enacts violence on our intimate relationships when it exercises its power to remove children from their carers. Much of the injustice in the system pertains to the misuse of this power, or, what I call, the capacity to employ relational violence.

An article defending the main claim of my dissertation about relational violence is currently forthcoming at the American Journal of Political Science. My full dissertation is available upon request.

Journal Articles

“Injustice, Relational Violence, and the Foster System.” American Journal of Political Science, forthcoming.
Draft available on request.

“Redistricting Reforms Reduce Gerrymandering by Constraining Partisan Actors.” Under review
With Cory McCartan, Christopher T. Kenny, Tyler Simko, Michael Y Zhao, and Kosuke Imai.