He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled The Blind Scorekeepers: How Public Opinion Gets Defined in American Politics, which examines the role played by quantitative survey data in news coverage of American politics. He received his PhD in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a BA in social studies from Harvard. From 2016-2017, he was also a postdoctoral research fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. Prior to entering academia, he worked for several years as a journalist and researcher at The New York Times.