I am a doctoral candidate (DPhil) in political science at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, where I am also the Menashe Ben Israel scholar at Lincoln College. I am interested in the comparative and historical political economy of political violence and conflict processes. In particular, I use quantitative and quasi-experimental methods to investigate the short and long term impact of violence on political behavior and how this relationship shapes conflict dynamics. I'll be on the academic job market in 2023-2024.

My previous research, published in Comparative Political Studies and the Journal of Conflict Resolution was centred on the long-term electoral patterns created by the Palestinian Exodus in the first Jewish-Arab war (1947-1949). My current research is also mostly focused on the roots and dynamics of contention in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as part of a larger agenda of understanding how conflicts can be endogenously driven as a result of the relationship between violence and political behavior. I am working on this agenda and writing a dissertation on the dynamic logic of violence in the Palestinian Exodus, which presents a new interactive theory of violence in civil wars, and utilizes several unique natural experiments and original fine-grained historical data.

Previously I completed with distinction a research-track M.A. degree in international relations at the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel's leading research university. I earned my B.A. in political science and international relations at the Open University of Israel as part of a special program for gifted youth. In addition to academia, I am an activist for peace and democracy in Israel/Palestine, an avid but novice photographer and chess player, and president of the Oxford University LGBTQ+ Society. You are welcome to browse my working papers, and feel free to make contact!