David Crabtree is a PhD student at the University of Chicago studying democratic backsliding and institutions. He currently has three projects. One project, funded by the Malyi Center for Institutional Effectiveness, tracks the history of election denialism in the United States with text-as-data analysis of town hall transcripts and politician speeches. A second project considers whether especially strict or protected term limits deter presidents from staying in power for life. Lastly, with Professors Tom Ginsburg (Univ. of Chicago) and Kristina Daugirdas (Univ. of Michigan), David manages the Charters of Intergovernmental Organizations Project and is coauthoring a dataset paper and a paper analyzing how amendments affect IO longevity.