Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor at Loyola University Maryland. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer at the Program on Ethics, Politics, & Economics at Yale University. I received my Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University and an M.A. in Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences from Columbia University as a la Caixa Graduate Fellow. 

My interests are wide-ranging and interdisciplinary. They include political elites, colonial investments and legacies, education, and culture. I focus on East and West African countries and, more recently, also on Latin America. My work has been published in the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Historical Political Economy, Journal of Modern African Studies, Journal of Politics, Public Choice, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Studies in Comparative International Development, and World Politics.

Prior to receiving my PhD, I worked as a consultant for Princeton's Innovations for Successful Societies in Mexico and for the World Bank in Poverty Reduction and Economic Management.