Her research agenda focuses on judicial politics with particular attention to gleaning insights into legal development from the content of judicial opinions through the use of computational text analytic techniques. She completed her Ph.D in Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis in 2013. Before beginning her doctoral studies she earned her B.A. summa cum laude in History from Huntington University, her J.D. with high distinction from Ohio Northern University, and a Master’s Degree in Political Science from the University of Toledo.