He received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 2010. He was a pre/post-doctoral fellow in quantitative methods at the University of Oxford in the Department of Politics and International Relations between 2009 and 2010. His research interests include American politics, public opinion, political behavior, religion and politics, prejudice, Muslim Americans, and quantitative research methods. He is working on a book project that studies ethnocentric roots of prejudice toward Muslims in the U.S. and Europe.