I am a Departmental Lecturer in International Relations at the DPIR, in association with St Hilda's College. Previously, I was a Max Weber Fellow and Part-Time (Assistant) Professor of Qualitative Methods in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the European University Institute. I earned my DPhil and MSc at the University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre and my BSc at Cornell University.
I have held visiting research fellowships at the Hertie School (Centre for International Security) in Berlin, and at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, and have worked for the United Nations, in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General, as well as for human rights organisations in Washington DC and Buenos Aires.
Research
I am interested in the politics of identity, stigma, and brutality during war and other episodes of violence. My research centres around marginalised social groups in studies of contentious politics and political violence. My current book project investigates collective violence against LGBTIQ+ people during the Colombian civil war and ties these dynamics of violence to wartime social transformation processes. At the DPIR, I will begin a new research project, which explores the phenomenon of 'social cleansing' in Latin America through a theoretical and historical analysis of the concept of 'subversion' in Colombia and Argentina.
I have further research interests in LGBTIQ+ displacement from both theoretical and empirical perspectives, queer articulations of peacebuilding and resistance, as well as the role of aesthetics and art in contentious politics.
I am the co-editor of the volume Queer Conflict Research (Bristol University Press, 2024) and co-author of the forthcoming monograph Toward a Queer Theory of Refuge (University of California Press). I have served as a guest editor for special issues on 'Queer Peacebuilding' for the Revista de Estudios Sociales and 'LGBTIQ+ People in Situations of Forced Displacement' for the Journal of Refugee Studies.
