Hello and welcome! 

I am an incoming Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House, where I will work with Professor Beth Simmons on the Borders and Boundaries Project. My research will focus on the use, diffusion, and evolving impacts of border technologies, particularly the transformation of borders into increasingly "smart" systems over time.

Currently, I am completing a postdoctoral associate position at Cornell University's Department of Government. At Cornell, I study global media narratives on political violence using machine learning and AI-assisted large language models (LLMs). 

My broader research interests include armed conflict, border security, security cooperation, and civil-military relations. My dissertation investigated how institutionalized defense cooperation and border fortification affected domestic politics, focusing on elite defection and anti-government armed uprisings. I also explore the intersections of political violence and foreign policy, with implications for democratic backsliding in the Global South.

I hold an M.A. in Political Science from McGill University and a Ph.D. in Government from the University of Texas at Austin.