My dissertation (winner of the APSA Best Dissertation in Political Psychology Award, 2024) explores the interplay between suppressive political institutions, emotions, and political participation. I apply a novel theory in three papers drawing on experiments conducted in and observational data from the United States and Malaysia. I find that disparate emotions perpetuate disparate patterns of behavior based on whether or not a person wins or loses from electoral suppression.

Dissertation Committee: Nicholas Valentino (Co-Chair), Allen Hicken (Co-Chair), Elisabeth Gerber, Noah Nathan and Justine Davis.