Hi, I’m Josh. Presently I’m a PhD with the political science department. My background is primarily in linguistics, political behavior/psychology, and American/Comparative politics. Substantively, my interests are quite diverse: ranging from conceptualizations of Power and social control in contemporary political thought, to state formation/institutional development, empirical political discourse analysis, the social psychological bases of political information processing and quantitative methods to name a few. My current project pertains to how individuals-both alone and subjected to overt group pressure-process and recall politically salient, whole text information. Specifically, this work involves how the grammatical structures of Narratives condition these operations in conjunction with social identity signals for both ideal and structurally deficient texts. It is my hope that someday it can be expanded to other types of texts and visual processing, however.