Doctoral Candidate
About
I am a comparativist who studies political behavior and national attachment. My research examines how institutional encounters shape political incorporation and the meanings citizens attach to membership.
My dissertation leverages Thailand’s military lottery system to study how conscription produces divergent civic outcomes. More broadly, my work explores how the same institutional encounter can generate distinct and separable effects on national identity and political orientations across democratic and non-democratic settings.
My research spans comparative and American politics and combines natural experiments, survey experiments, qualitative fieldwork, and historical analysis in projects on military service; national identity and immigration preferences among Latino Americans; and racialized state violence in the United States.
