Hughes Field Politics Center. She teaches courses on American state politics, research methods, and survey methodology in the Center for People, Politics, and Markets. In her role as director of the Sarah T. Hughes Field Politics Center, she oversees every aspect of the Goucher Poll, including interviewer training, questionnaire construction, sampling, and data analysis. Her research interests include public opinion, survey research methodology, and American state politics. Her scholarly work has appeared in Social Science Quarterly, the Social Science Journal, the Journal of Legislative Studies, and the Journal of Political Science Education. She is a frequent commentator on Maryland politics and has been quoted in The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, The Atlantic, NPR, The Boston Globe, Glamour Magazine, and U.S. News and World Reports.