About Me

I am a political science PhD Candidate at Emory University and currently a Laney Graduate School Dean's Teaching Fellow (2026-2027). My research investigates how autocrats share power and bargain with elites under different state constraints, how those constraints change, and how the outcomes of those bargains impact the political behavior of non-elites. I use archival data mixed with causal inferential empirics to study these dynamics principally in medieval England,  but also early modern Europe, Imperial Vietnam, and the Jim Crow Era American South. 

 

When not reading through medieval documents or fixing error messages in my code, I enjoy diving around a volleyball court, backpacking with my Eagle Scout membership card, Egyptology, and writing poetry that would disappoint my high school English teacher.

 

My email is: bradley.erickson@emory.edu