About Me
I am a political scientist studying the dynamics of organizational change, with a particular focus on the downstream consequences of rapid growth in difficult operational environments. I am currently working on a book on grassroots-driven, "bottom-up," organizational transformation in militant and clandestine organizations.
I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
I received my Ph. D from the Department of Political Science at Duke University in June 2020, with primary fields in Security, Peace, and Conflict and quantitative methods.
My research on the operation of organizations includes additional projects that explore the diversity of organizational structures among issue-motivated organizations and the pathways through which network connections influence the trajectories of groups. I have a strong interest in quantitative and computational methods for political science, particularly applied Bayesian statistics, network analysis, and text-as-data.
Before starting my academic career, I tracked and analyzed jihadi and far-right propaganda as a senior analyst at the SITE Intelligence Group, an experience that has deeply shaped my approach to developing a theoretically-driven research agenda that is strongly informed by primary sources and tested quantitatively.
I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
I received my Ph. D from the Department of Political Science at Duke University in June 2020, with primary fields in Security, Peace, and Conflict and quantitative methods.
My research on the operation of organizations includes additional projects that explore the diversity of organizational structures among issue-motivated organizations and the pathways through which network connections influence the trajectories of groups. I have a strong interest in quantitative and computational methods for political science, particularly applied Bayesian statistics, network analysis, and text-as-data.
Before starting my academic career, I tracked and analyzed jihadi and far-right propaganda as a senior analyst at the SITE Intelligence Group, an experience that has deeply shaped my approach to developing a theoretically-driven research agenda that is strongly informed by primary sources and tested quantitatively.