CV & Bio

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I am a political science research scholar at Johns Hopkins University. I study perceptions of deservingness, attitudes toward income inequality, and the politics of distribution.

I joined Johns Hopkins from the University of Memphis, where I was assistant professor of political science from 2019 to 2023. Prior to that, I served as program director of the Anxieties of Democracy and Media & Democracy programs at the Social Science Research Council.

I earned my Ph.D. (Harvard University, 2013) in political science, with a focus on political psychology and behavior. I also hold an M.Phil in European Politics from Oxford University, and a B.A. in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge University.

I was born in Estonia, grew up in Sweden, attended college in England, and went to graduate school in New England – as a result, I identify as a “third culture kid”. I have a finite Erdős number of 6 and am incredibly unlikely to ever get a finite Erdős–Bacon number.

If you are here because you want to find out whether I am related to President Trump, you can find some answers in this Guardian story from 2019 or this Vox story from 2016.