“I am a 3rd year PhD Candidate in political science who is affiliated with the HPL. Broadly, I’m interested in what people believe to be real, the tools they use to construct and sustain such realities, and how both motivate behavior. In service to these concerns my work at present attends to how social identity salience conditions the reconstructive fidelity and trajectories of complex, structured information. Specifically, I examine the extent to which partisanship drives recall processes for political narratives. I also develop empirical methods for measuring the temporal dynamics and cumulating effects of text exposures on memory. These methods draw on Systemic Functionalist discourse analysis techniques and random process (Markov) modeling in combination for use on observational non-stationary recall sequences as well as the latent cognitive states driving them. I look forward to extending this research into serial transmission processes, argumentative texts, and visual event recall in the future.”
