About Me

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Public and Nonprofit Studies at Georgia Southern University. 

My research aims attention at governmental policy responses to public health crises and their associated policy debates, with a focus on the opioid crisis and COVID-19. Specifically, I examine how such policy responses impact public servants and what these policies and the attitudes and behaviors of street-level bureaucrats mean for the protection of historically marginalized groups during crises and disasters. Theoretically, my research contributes to literature in representative bureaucracy, behavioral public administration, equity in emergency management, narrative inquiry in public policy, and the social construction of target populations. My work has been published in Critical Policy Studies, International Journal of Drug Policy, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Administrative Theory & Praxis, and Contemporary Drug Problems, among other journals.

Additionally, I am a 2022 ASPA Founders’ Fellow, member of the Pi Alpha Alpha Honors Society, and recipient of the Graduate Student Thesis and Dissertation Scholarship award, Adriana Castellano Scholarship, John Canada Scholarship, the Florida Atlantic University Presidential Fellowship, and the Florida Atlantic University Dean’s Fellowship.