Welcome!

I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tulane University. My research explores how and why political identity matters in the context of electoral politics. My book manuscript shows how government policies lead to the formation of ethnic electoral cleavages. My other research focuses on the causes of inequality in representation, and the formation of party systems in Western Europe.

My doctoral dissertation won the Ernst B. Haas Award for the Best Dissertation on European Politics from the European Politics and Society section of APSA, and my research appeared in World Politics and the American Journal of Political Science. I received my PhD in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin—Madison in 2019 and was a Postdoctoral Researcher at in the Institutions and Political Economy Research Group (IPErG) at the University of Barcelona from 2019-2023 and a Visiting Researcher in the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University from 2023-2024.

I can be reached at mmor[at]tulane[dot]edu