Research on the interaction between social movements and institutions:
A paper on the interaction between Black religion and police at protest in the United States between 1972 and 2010. In preperation for submission, available upon request.
Panel presentation at ASA 2024, Montreal, CA
Invited talk, RASR, University of Notre Dame, 2023
Panel presentation at SSSR 2023, Salt Lake City, UT
A paper on the role of clergy in protest leadership networks in the Black movement in the 1990s and 2000s.
Panel presentation at Bringing the People Back In, ESS Mini Conference 2026, Washington, D.C.
Panel presentation at SSSR 2025, Minneapolis, MN
A paper published in Mobilization on the role of diffuse social movement organizations in creating space for ideological innovation under repression. Using protest event data from East Germany's Peaceful Revolution in 1989, I employ event history analysis to model the relationship between the establishment of the diffuse opposition organization, Neues Forum, and the adoption of a novel demand for reunification across East German locations. I find evidence that early founding of Neues Forum in a location is associated with adoption of a demand for reunification in that same location. I use historical and secondary sources to argue that under repression a diffuse social movement organization can act as a focal point for an ideologically diverse set of participants who can then advance and mobilize novel demands without the imposition of an agenda from a unified opposition organization.
Honorable Mention, 2025 Mayer N. Zald Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Student Paper Award, ASA Section on Collective Behavior & Social Movements
Research on the role of media in social movements, methods of protest event data collection, and newspapers as a source data for protest event analysis, coauthored with Pam Oliver, Chaeyoon Lim, and Erin Gaede:
An Element in Contentious Politics about the case of mobilization for the Jena Six. Published in Cambridge Elements.
A chapter in the edited volume Processes of Collective Action about the use of news as a data source when employing process tracing methods to study social movements. In press, preprint here
A paper about how audience and proximity drive selection and description bias in newspaper coverage of Black protests about police in the 1990s and 2000s. Under review, preprint here
A paper about variation in mainstream, White news media and Black news media coverage of issues taken up by Black protests in the 1990s and 2000s. Preprint here