Welcome! I am an associate professor of political science at the University of California, Merced. I direct a lab on the Political Economy of Agriculture and Rural Societies (PEARS) and am affiliated with IGCC and CAPE. I received my PhD in political science from Harvard University and have been a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. 

My research is in comparative politics, political economy of development, and economic history. Much of my work is on India, though I also work comparatively. I am especially interested in technology, bureaucracy, and democracy. I study these topics using natural experiments, spatial data, machine learning, and a lot of time spent doing fieldwork and in libraries.