Tom is an MPhil student at the Department of Politics and International Relations in Comparative Government, and a member of St Anne’s College. He is currently researching campaign finance contributions to ballot initiative campaigns in the United States and how actors cooperate across institutional borders. His previous research examined recreational drug legalisation attempts in the United States to assess how state-level direct democracy affects the dynamics of US federalism.
Tom received his BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford.