Winner of the J. David Greenstone Best Book in Politics & History Award in 2019
Reviewed in Comparative Politics, Political Science Quarterly, The American Historical Review, The Journal of American History, Perspective on Politics, Journal of American Studies, Revue d’histoire du XIXE siecle
Winner of the V.O. Key Prize for Best Book on Southern Politics published in 2018
Winner of the D.B. Hardeman Prize for Best Book on Congress published in 2018-2019, awarded by the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation
Finalist for the J. David Greenstone Book Prize in 2019
Reviewed in The Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, The Journal of American History, Congress & the Presidency, Journal of Southern History, American Historical Review, Civil War Book Review, The Nation, and positively cited in The New Yorker.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS Editor-Reviewed Research Articles 2016. “An Inherent Tension within Populist Politics.” with Adam Levine. The Forum. 14(3): 311-327 2016. “Race, Party, and American Voting Rights.” The Forum. 14(1): 39-65 Book Reviews and Review Essays 2022. “Review of The Senate: From White Supremacy to Governmental Gridlock by Daniel Wirls.” Congress & the Presidency 2022. “Review of Congress and the First Civil Rights Era, 1861-1918 by Jeffrey A. Jenkins and Justin Peck.” Political Science Quarterly 137(3): 612-14 2021. “Party Politics and American Racial Orders: Review Essay of Keneisha Grant, The Great Migration and the Democratic Party, Boris Heersink and Jeffery A. Jenkins, Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968, and Nathan P. Kalmoe, With Ballots and Bullets.” Journal of Politics. 2020. “Democracy’s Discontents: Review Essay of James Fishkin, Democracy When the People are Thinking: Revitalizing our Politics through Public Deliberation, Sanford Levinson and Jack M. Balkin, Democracy and Dysfunction, Keith Bybee, How Civility Works, and Jeffery K. Tulis and Nicole Mellow, Legacies of Losing in American Politics.” Tulsa Law Review. 55(2): 163-173 2020. “Review of From Oligarchy to Republicanism: The Great Task of Reconstruction, by Forrest Nabors.” Perspectives on Politics. 2020. “Review of The South and the Transformation of US Politics, by Charles S. Bullock III, Susan A. MacManus, Jeremy D. Mayer, and Mark J. Rozell.” Perspectives on Politics. 2018. “Majority Tyranny: Review Essay of Anna Harvey, A Mere Machine: The Supreme Court, Congress, and American Democracy and Louis Fisher, Congress: Protecting Individual Rights.” Tulsa Law Review. 53(2):179-89. 2017. “Review of Building an American Empire: The Age of Territorial Expansion, by Paul Frymer.” Journal of Politics. 80(1): 15-16. 2016. “Review of Separation of Powers and Legislative Organization, by Gisela Sin.” Journal of Politics. 78(2): e11-e12. 2016. “Review of The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government, by Fergus Bordewich.” Political Science Quarterly. 131(4): 865-66 Contributions to Section Newsletters 2019. “The Comparative Turn in American Politics.” Comparative Politics Newsletter. 29(1): 8-14 2017. “Standing on the Shoulders of Keith Poole.” The Legislative Scholar. 2(2): 22-23. WORKING PAPERS “Democratization in the USA? The Impact of Suffrage Qualifications on Politics and Policy.” Revised and re-submitted; under review. “Election Administration and Democratic Fragility.” With Robert Lieberman and Aaron Childree “Subnational Threats to Election Administration.” With Robert Lieberman and Aaron Childree “Break in Case of Emergency: The Necessity, Peril, and Track Record of Democratic Hardball.” “The Dilemmas of Democratic Peoplehood.” “Gilded Age Doughfaces and Reluctant Reformers: Northern Democratic Parties at the turn of the Century.” With Richard Barton