I am a second-year Political Theory candidate at Linacre College. I'm broadly interested in affect theory, feminist studies, and questions of citizenship and sovereignty.

I completed my undergraduate studies at Cornell University with a double major in Government and Literatures in English, graduating summa cum laude. My undergraduate thesis examined the role of affect in Brontë's Wuthering Heights from a Foucauldian lens. After graduating, I spent two years at a pro-democracy non-profit.

I am currently reading for the MPhil in International Relations at DPIR. My specific research interests include questions about gender and intersectionality in the context of Eastern European security.

Prior to studying at Oxford, I received my B.S in Political Science and Foreign Area Studies with minors in Russian and Spanish language from the United States Air Force Academy.

As a comparativist, I am interested in political parties and institutional development in post-conflict settings; collective political violence; electoral behaviour; and human rights. My doctoral dissertation explains divergent party building trajectories in the aftermath of Latin American civil wars. It combines theory development with rich empirics based on structured and unstructured data, including thorough analysis of in-depth interviews, archival material, and surveys.