Welcome to my website! I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at Yale University, and a Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar for the 2024-25 academic year. Previously, I studied at the Universities of Oxford and Lausanne. In the spring of 2025, I will join Humboldt Universität zu Berlin as a Postdoctoral Fellow.

Ours is an era of significant challenges to – but also significant opportunity for – democratic governance. I deploy quantitative methods of causal inference to study how diverse societies can mobilize citizens from all walks of life to participate in shared governance.

My dissertation combines survey and archival evidence to show that violence presents a formidable obstacle to diverse representation and plays an important role in the erosion of democratic governance more broadly. To establish governance by and for the people, judicial and coercive institutions must act as democratic enforcers.

Challenges to democracy also emerge from confrontation with autocratic powers, motivating a co-authored research agenda on interactions between democratic and autocratic states, with a particular focus on the political economy of sanctions.

My research is generously supported by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Political Science Association, the Rapoport Family Foundation, and the Yale MacMillan Center.