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I am a Ph.D. Student in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. I am supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. My primary research agenda focuses on class, status, and the consequences of the polarization of work for political attitudes in the United States.

Other projects examine the behavior of campaign contributors, candidate cues and heuristics in low-information elections, and the effects of mass communication and political advertising, among others. My research has been published in American Politics Research, the Journal of Politics, Political Behavior, and Political Research Quarterly.

I received a B.A. in Political Science from American University in 2016. I can be reached at bhamel@ucla.edu.