Hello and welcome!

I am a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell University, affiliated with the Department of Government and the Gender and Security Sector Lab.

I study conflict, territorialization and border politics, security cooperation and civil-military relations, and technology and politics. My dissertation assesses the role of institutionalized defense cooperation and border fortification in domestic politics, focusing on elite defection and anti-government armed uprisings. My broader research also lies at the intersections of political violence and foreign policy with implications for democratic backsliding in the Global South.

I am studying global media narratives on political violence at Cornell using machine learning and AI-assisted large language models (LLMs).

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