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.

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