The only problem is that she has become infatuated with him and wants to be his wife - but he already has a beautiful wife Isabelle (Veronique-Natale Szalankiewicz) who is seriously ill, and a lovely little daughter Carol (Jennifer Marcil): Isabelle is easily disposed of in hospital. When I'm not working, I like reading fiction (recent fave: “Go, Went, Gone” by Jenny Erpenbeck) and non-fiction (recent fave: “Why Fish Don’t Exist” by Lulu Miller), traveling (especially by sailboat or motorcycle), working up a sweat (even better with friends), eating (most anything), and watching shitty action movies (I know, just when you were starting to like me. Rachel Parsons (Josie Davis) is the perfect assistant to the company boss, David Wescott (Chris Potter). The rest of the site describes my research and teaching experience in more detail.īefore I started graduate school, I worked for a few years in public health and education. I am currently working on a book project on appearance-based discrimination in politics, and have recently taught classes on political psychology and public policy, identity politics, statistics and research design, women in politics, and computational methods.

in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and was a Postdoctoral Prize Fellow in Politics at Nuffield. Before joining Nuffield, I served as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. I am Associate Professor of Quantitative Political Science Research Methods at Nuffield College and the University of Oxford.

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