1) American Political Economy
2) Statistics and Computing
3) Political Geography
4) STEM Pedagogy
Emily is a fourth year PhD candidate in Political Science in the subfields of American Politics and Methodology. She also holds a Master's degree in Statistics from the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation focuses on the role that work historically done in a community plays on that community's identity and views on future economic and environmental policy. She joined the MPC as a Population Studies Predoctoral Trainee in 2021.
Emily became interested in learning about politics and geography from her childhood spent in small-town Ohio, about a half hour west of Cleveland. Her ongoing projects include a paper categorizing counties based on the deindustrialization they have experienced over the past several decades, a paper studying when people give companies a "pass" to harm their direct environment (through the lens of PFAS - a timely issue in the Twin Cities), and a paper studying the differences in how Americans of different racial and ethnic backgrounds "think about" moral political issues. She also hopes to revisit an old project - one studying the impact of weight-based examples on gender differences in math learning outcomes - as one of her main goals in life is to help others, especially those of backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in STEM, defeat their math anxiety.