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 a faculty affiliate at 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, and political-economic history/development. I am an expert on India, though I also work comparatively. Most of my research is on technology, democracy, and bureaucracy.