Welcome!

Beginning in September 2026, I will be a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Economics and the Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, working under the supervision of Guido Tabellini.

I am a political scientist whose research focuses on political economy and political methodology, with a particular emphasis on how institutions shape elite and mass political behavior across regime types — from consolidated democracies to entrenched dictatorships. I examine these dynamics using both cross-national data and fine-grained evidence from Russia and Eastern Europe. My solo-authored work appears in Comparative Political Studies.

I earned my Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2026. I also hold an M.A. in Political Science from UNC and an M.A. in Russian and East European Studies from Indiana University Bloomington.