About

Welcome, and thanks for stopping by!

Starting in Fall 2025, I will be joining the Department of Journalism in the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida as an associate professor.

I am a journalism and political communication scholar, and my work focuses on how media technologies and online platforms shape political information flows and enable the emergence of new ideas and ideologies.

I have published more than 40 peer-reviewed articles on these topics, including publications in leading journals such as Journal of Communication, Political Communication, Digital Journalism, and New Media & Society. I’m an outgoing associate editor of the International Journal of Public Opinion Research, a collaborator on the Comparative National Elections Project, and a founding member of the Office of Politics, Communication and Media. I also sit on the editorial boards of several prominent journals in the fields of journalism and communication.

Currently, I’m a faculty member in the Department of Journalism & Creative Media at the University of Alabama, and prior to that, in the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna in Austria. I earned a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2015. I’m from Houston, Texas, and I enjoy chess, music, history podcasts, and the exploration of new places and ideas.