welcomeMy research is at the intersection of Comparative Politics and International Relations, and I focus on conflict, nonviolence, and identity politics. I completed a PhD in political science at the University of Maryland-College Park in May 2019. From August 2018-May 2020, I was an Instructor of Political Science at Colorado Mesa University, in Grand Junction, Colorado. Currently, I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
In my research, I explore two inter-related questions - why do some non-state actors use violence to achieve their political goals, whereas other eschew force and run in elections or employ nonviolence? Likewise, why do governments sometimes respond to the political demands of these actors by repressing them, but at other times, attempt to accommodate their requests by offering them concessions? I am also interested in what causes organizations to mobilize along ethnic, multi-ethnic, or non-ethnic lines, how mobilization strategies change over time, and what causes organizations within ethnically mobilized groups to cooperate with each other. My research has been funded by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START). From 2011-2016, I worked as the project coordinator of the All Minorities and Risk (AMAR) Project, which is housed at the University of Maryland's Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM). |