Assistant Professor @DenisonU. American politics, immigration policy, attitudes, identity, experiments.
Granville, OH
Joined December 2019
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My job market paper is now available as a preprint! 🚨
Using survey evidence with a conjoint experiment, I test how state-level immigrant integration policy features affect perceptions of fairness and support.
3 key points, the big takeaway, the link, and a bonus below⬇️🧵
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Historically, state governments face thermostatic responses, separate from national policy:
jstor.org/stable/24711107
When they raise (or lower) spending & taxes, voters notice & push for the opposite. But nationalization may open more room for states to act without voters noticing
I’ve got a short-form piece out today that summarizes some of my recent immigration research and what I think it means for publicly popular state-level integration policies.⬇️
Most research on immigration opinion is about who gets in. Today's guest essay by the great @tntrummel asks what Americans want once immigrants are already here.
She finds more partisan consensus than you might expect, as long as the rules for access are seen as fair.
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Amazing work by one of my academic besties, Dr. @alicemalmberg1 📊!
Do LLMs consider covariates differently than live respondents in conjoint experiments?
In POQ, Malmberg finds that silicon samples are ill-equipped to simulate human decision-making in this context.
Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfag069
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I hope other journals follow this policy. It would create much-needed incentives for all of us to study things that actually matter and to focus more on producing high-quality publications than churning a lot of publications we can live without.
AJPS has introduced a new submission cap policy, effective today. Under the new policy, individuals may submit up to three manuscripts as an author or co-author in a 12-month period, with an option to request a waiver for a fourth submission. Read more: ajps.org/2026/11/04/new-ajps…
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After reviewing ~200 job applications for our search in American Politics, I have some Thoughts about the state of the subfield and Political Science more broadly. A 🧵 👇
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My department is hiring!
The School of Political Science, Public Affairs, Legal & Security Studies has opened a tenure-track search in American Politics.
careers.utrgv.edu/postings/5…
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Since 2000, the average college course description has more political content & more liberal slant. Changes are modest relative to persistent cross-field differences; student demand for liberal content rises over the 2010s & peaks in 2020
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!
Closing the Gap: #Gender, #Race, & #Welfare-State Knowledge
By Jasmine English
cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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From our FirstView: New Evidence and Design Considerations for Repeated Measure Experiments in Survey Research by @dianamejordan, @Trent_Oll and ANDREW TREXLER. doi.org/10.1017/S00030554261….
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Very important work! Congratulations @sanmavicha 🎉
Our paper with @D_JRomero and E. Wibbels is now available at @cps_journal! We ask what are individuals’ preferences when hiring people to take them up North (coyotes). Illegal mig is a big business and we don’t know enough about how it works.
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What shapes preferences toward immigrants?
Across 1.5M profiles, people strongly prefer immigrants who:
- are employed
- high-skilled
- speak the language
- have roots in the host country
- fled violence
- followed legal procedures
Surprisingly, nationality matters very little.
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NEW in @ScienceAdvances, after 3 years of work with a great team:
We review and meta-analyze 100 immigrant conjoint experiments in 36 countries.
Immigration preferences are surprisingly similar across people and countries, but changing over time and structured by politics.
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I passed my defense last week! 🎉
My dissertation examines how subnational immigrant integration policy influences perceptions of fairness and identifies policy bundles Americans are more likely to support.
I want to recognize them for their thoughtful guidance in developing my research and teaching. They have been exemplary and I've been fortunate to work with them for all these years.
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Could US intervention trigger a Cuban refugee wave? Robert Gates says the biggest risk is another Mariel boatlift. In a sharp new guest post, @gildeguerra shows why that's unlikely: most pathways are blocked and the people most likely to flee already left: popularbydesign.org/p/will-i…
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Some good news: In Our Interest has been selected as 2026 Best Book on Migration by @MigCitizenAPSA.
The book's pitch in one line: pro-immigration politics succeeds when policies visibly serve citizens, but (most often) fails when they don't.
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In increasingly nationalized elections, how do voters use policy information to choose candidates?
In a paper just accepted at @The_JOP (with @aaronrudkin), we provide experimental evidence of nationalized information-processing in the electorate, but with a few nuances
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