My research interests lie in Comparative Political Economy and Political Economy of Development. My methodological expertise lies in the field of Computational Social Sciences.
Teaching
Graduate
Python for Social Data Science
Course Convenor
Department of Politics and International Relations
University of Oxford
Quantitative Text Analysis
Course Convenor
Department of Politics and International Relations
University of Oxford
Text as Data: Computational Text Analysis
Course Convenor
Department of Politics and International Relations
University of Oxford
Applied Statistics for Political Scientists
Coding Sessions (Labs) for the Lecture Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences
Department of Politics and International Relations
University of Oxford
Undergraduate
211: Politics of the Middle East
PPE (Politics, Philosophy, Economics) Degree (Undergraduate)
Pembroke, St. Hilda’s, and Somerville Colleges
University of Oxford
201: Comparative Government
Revision Sessions
PPE (Politics, Philosophy, Economics) Degree (Undergraduate)
University of Oxford
Teaching Assistant at the Chair of Quantitative Methods, Prof. Thomas Gschwend, PhD,
University of Mannheim, Germany
Tutorial: Empirical Political Research in Political Science (lecture by: Dr. Sean Carey) (Undergraduate)
Publications
Published Work
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"The Importance of a Liberal Power’s Attention to Democratic Elections Around the World" - Forthcoming at Journal of Politics (with Johannes Bubeck, Nikolay Marinov, and Federico Nanni)
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"Illiberal Communication and Election Intervention during the Refugee Crisis in Germany" - Perspectives on Politics (with Konstantin Gavras, Nikolay Marinov, Federico Nanni, and Harald Schön)
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"NLP Approach to the Study Economic Sanctions" - Forthcoming at Journal of Peace Research (with Nikolay Marinov, Federico Nanni, and Jordan Tama)
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"Using Historical Maps for MENA Political Science Research" - American Political Science Association, MENA Politics Newsletter, Spring 2021
Working Papers
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"Named-Entity Recognition with Application to Foreign Leader Mentions in Congressional Speeches" (with Ines Rehbein, Nikolay Marinov, Federico Nanni)
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"Heretics and Infidels: International Legal Commitments and the Enforcement of Human Rights" - under review (with Daniela Donno, Nikolay Marinov, and Federico Nanni)
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"Binding Hands or Granting Discretion: Congress, the President, and the Design of Economic Sanctions" (with Nikolay Marinov, Federico Nanni, and Jordan Tama)
Data Collection Project
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"U.S. SASCAT - U.S. Congressional and Presidential Statements and Actions on Sanctions" (with Nikolay Marinov, Federico Nanni, and Jordan Tama) [Finished]
Conference Papers and Presentations
PaCSS: The 5th Annual Politics and Computational Social Science Conference
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Title: "Seeing Persons, or Seeing Countries? Foreign Leader Salience on the US Congress Floor"
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Harvard
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June 2022
PolMeth Europe 2022
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Title: "Seeing Persons, or Seeing Countries? Foreign Leader Salience on the US Congress Floor"
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The University of Hamburg Germany (attended online)
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June 2022
Women in Quantitative Methods at Oxford
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Title: Employing Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing & Geographic Information Systems in Data Collection and Analysis in Political Science
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Nuffield College, University of Oxford (attended online)
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April 2022
Women in Political Methodology Speaker Series
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Title: Illiberal Communication and Election Intervention During the Refugee Crisis in Germany
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Online Event
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October, 2021
Monash-Warwick-Zurich Text-as-Data Workshop
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Why Obasanjo but Germany: The Leader vs. Country Debate on the Floor of U.S. Congress
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February, 2021
American Political Science Association Meeting
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Virtual Conference
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September, 2020
Zurich Text as Data
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"Who Wants to Talk About Refugees and Why? Foreign Interventions in German Elections"
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ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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October, 2019
Tex Meth Conference of the Political Methodology Society
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Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
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March, 2019
Sanction Workshop: "Supranational Economic Statecraft: Sanction Success and Failure in a Comparative Perspective."
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"Quantifying Attention to Elections with Text-Analysis"
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Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan , Poland
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October, 2017
Fifth Open Section Meeting of the DVWR IR Section
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"Quantifying Attention to Elections with Text-Analysis",
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University of Bremen, Germany
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October, 2017
IC2C2 International Conference on Computational Social Sciences
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Paper Title: "Quantifying Attention to Elections with Text-Analysis",
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Cologne, Germany
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July, 2017