Hi! I’m Ben Goehring.
In Fall 2025, I will start as an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. I study American political institutions, with a particular focus on executive branch politics at the state and federal levels. I am also interested in the causes of public sector turnover, especially among correctional officers.I am originally from Fargo, North Dakota and graduated from George Washington University in 2017 with degrees in philosophy and political science. Before graduate school, I studied means-tested social assistance programs as a research assistant at the Urban Institute. I co-authored a couple of reports (here, and here) on states’ Temporary Assistance for Needy Families’ policies and helped maintain the TRIM3 microsimulation model.