About Me
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Duke University. My primary fields are Security, Peace, and Conflict and quantitative methods. My dissertation project proposes a theory of grassroots-driven, "bottom-up," organizational transformation in resource-constrained organizations.
Additional projects explore the pathways through which network connections influence the trajectories of constituent groups and the diversity of organizational structures among issue-motivated 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 coming to Duke, 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.
Additional projects explore the pathways through which network connections influence the trajectories of constituent groups and the diversity of organizational structures among issue-motivated 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 coming to Duke, 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.