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I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC). I hold an M.A. in Political Science from UNC and an M.A. in Russian and East European Studies from Indiana University, Bloomington. My research—including a solo-authored paper in Comparative Political Studies—combines original data collection, computational social science (natural language processing, Bayesian measurement models, and network analysis), game theory, and causal inference with observational and experimental data to examine how political institutions structure elite conflict within and across political systems, with particular attention to Russia and Eastern Europe. I am also interested in questions of measurement in political science and the social sciences more broadly. Click here to read my public-facing scholarship on authoritarian regime dynamics in Russia.