Welcome. I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Virginia in the Program for Constitutionalism and Democracy. I have a PhD in political science from UChicago and a JD from Tulane University. My research focuses on political parties and ideology, public law, political economy, and race over the course of 20th Century American politics. I am on the American politics and public law job market.

My research has been published in American Political Science Review,Law & Social Inquiry, Studies in American Political Development, and a forthcoming Oxford Handbook chapter, among other venues.

My book manuscript — Enemy Establishments: The Constitution, the Modern American State, and the Structure of Our Polarized Politics — will be submitted to Oxford University Press this fall (2024). I have a second monograph in progress — Reacting to the Right: Money, Institution-Building on the Left, and the Origins of the American Constitution Society — that is co-authored with Paul Baumgardner.

I am currently working on a paper exploring on why party politics have historically ~not~ been a causal driver of American constitutional law and politics and a second solo book project on the political development of left-liberalism and the Democratic Party from 1980 to today.

For more information, click on my CV. The research tab contains PDFs of my published articles.

I can be reached at urj3cc@virginia.edu