Welcome! I am Gabriel Borelli, and I am a fifth year PhD candidate in the Politics program at Princeton University.  I am also a proud alumnus of Wesleyan University, where I graduated with Honors in the College of Social Studies--- an interdisciplinary major bringing together tutorial classes in government, economics, and history.  Currently, I am broadly interested in questions pertaining to elections, voting behavior, and Congress.  I am also interested in (descriptive) representation and how that relates the afformentioned topics. In my dissertation project, I am investigating the trajectory of conservative ideology, particularly in the years during and leading up to the Trump administration.  I am also working on several additional projects investigating how voters evaluate candidates from different backgrounds, in particular when candidates do not necessarily belong to one group even as they have strong ties and associations to another group.