About
I am a PhD Candidate in Political Science at the University of Michigan. I study comparative politics, specifically state and nation-building, authoritarianism, and political violence. My regional focus is Southeast Asia – Myanmar, Indonesia, and Thailand – where I have extensive area knowledge and fieldwork experience. I was a 2019-2020 United States Institute of Peace-Minerva Peace Fellow for my dissertation Remobilizing Resentment: Intrareligious Elite Polarization and Interreligious Conflict During Myanmar’s Political Liberalization. My work appears in the Asian Journal of Comparative Politics and I have a revise and resubmit in the Journal of Contemporary Asia.
I have an MA in Southeast Asian Studies and an MPH in Public Health. I was a Foreign Affairs Officer at the U.S. Department of State from 2014-2016.
