
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.
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).