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Selected Research Projects

Undergraduate Honors Thesis

Department of Political Science

Advised by Professor Christian Davenport

(Jan. 2019 - Present)

Independent research evaluating the construction and variability of post-colonial state security force complexes and contemporary outcomes for violence. The project involves archival and field work in London, England and New Delhi, India, including nearly three months of conducting expert interviews throughout the Indian subcontinent.

Affiliation: Honors Program, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Trivedi Centre for Political Data, in Sonipat, India.

Consequences of Contention

Research Assistant / Contributions to Book Project

Delhi, India

Ann Arbor, United States

(Jan. 2019 - Present)

Typified incidents of state repression in 15 countries around the globe correlating their temporal scales to democratization, civil resistance, and conflict. Qualitative histories were formed using U.S. State Department reports and Amnesty International records.​ 

Affiliation: Consequences of Contention

Trivedi Centre for Political Data

Research Associate

Advised by Professor Priyamvada Trivedi

(May 2019 - Aug. 2019; Dec. 2019)

Coded regional daily newspapers in Kashmir, India to typify contentious events and results for citizen populations. Workshopped coding through on-site work in Delhi, India.

 

Affiliation: Trivedi Centre for Political Data

Research Assistant

LSA Department of Political Science

Assistant to Professor Barbara Koremenos

(Jan. 2018 - May 2018)

Wrote research methodology for large-scale study of U.S./UN agreements, and gathered data and descriptive statistics from the Continent of International Law for creation of an app on international law to be used by lawmakers. Included Teaching Assistant position for POLSCI 364: Public International Law.

Affiliation: LSA Department of Political Science

Lead Researcher

Icelandic Human Rights Centre

Reykjavik, Iceland

(May 2018 - Aug. 2018)

Independent project correlating disarmament to human rights, including conceptualization of a measure of disarmament that evaluated country-year units for achievements in disarmament in law, practice, and effect. Involved collection of global data.

Affiliation: Icelandic Human Rights Centre

Research Assistant

International Environmental Policy Diffusion

Advised by Professor Christopher Fariss

(May 2017 - Present)

Catalyzed study of international environmental policy diffusion, studying the relevance of NGOs and development funders to innovations in policy. Involved creation of large-N database and coding system to track INGO presence and extensive literature review on existing theory.

Affiliation: Institute for Social Research

Selected honors include: Recipient of the national Beinecke Scholarship (press release here).

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