Her research focuses on the ways in which legislatures and the judiciary constrain the use of executive power manifested through various policy instruments such as executive orders, signing statements, rulemaking, and regulatory review. Her scholarship has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, and Presidential Studies Quarterly. Currently, she is working on projects examining the influence of legislative capacity on executive unilateralism, the duration of executive policymaking, and theory-testing models of delegation with a newly developed measure of statutory discretion. Prior to joining Vanderbilt University, she served on faculty in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh from 2013 to 2016. She received her B.A. from The Ohio State University in 2008 and her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2013.