Research on social movement dynamics including:
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
A paper on the failure of religion to provide privileged legitimacy to Black protests in the 1990s and 2000s.
Panel presentation at ASA 2024, Montreal, CA
Invited talk, RASR, University of Notre Dame, 2023
Panel presentation at SSSR 2023, Salt Lake City, UT
Research on methods of protest event data collection and newspapers as a source data for protest events including:
A chapter in an edited volume with Pam Oliver and Chaeyoon Lim about the use of news as a data source when employing process tracing methods to study social movements. In press.
A paper with Pam Oliver, Chaeyoon Lim, and Erin Gaede about the case of the Jena Six. Invited to revise and resubmit.
A paper with Pam Oliver, Erin Gaede, and Chaeyoon Lim about variation in mainstream, White news media and Black news media coverage of Black protests about police brutality in the 1990s and 2000s. Under review, preprint here
A paper with Pam Oliver, Chaeyoon Lim and Erin Gaede 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