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Hello, I am a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Yale University. 

My research agenda focuses on political behavior and preference formation in local politics, inequality in local democratic institutions, housing politics, and political engagement by marginalized groups. My book-length dissertation project, titled “Activists in Time: From Intense Preferences to Local Political Participation,” examines how ordinary citizens form political preferences using experiential knowledge and subsequently engage in local housing politics, comparatively in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Germany. I adopt a multi-method approach, using archival and experimental methods, as well as semi-structured interviews with oral history components in my dissertation. I also have working papers on energy burden's negative effect on satisfaction with democracy (with Laura Kettel), social factors of housing preferences from a tragic Grenfell Tower fire, and a simple approach with missing not at random assumption that can all be found on my research page. My work on missing data in high dimensions has also been published on Political Analysis. 

My teaching has primarily focused on urban politics, political economy and quantitative methodology. Throughout my teaching, I focus on fostering collaborative and engaged learning environments for my students to build research, writing and oral communication skills such that they are "learning to learn." Similar as in my book project, I emphasize the importance of experiential knowledge and draw intuition for substantive and methodological learning. I have embedded outreach and local community engagement in my own course design. I am en route to receive Certificate of College Teaching Preparation (CCTP) from the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning at Yale University. 

Before starting my PhD, I received a BA in World Politics (honors) and Mathematics at Hamilton College as a senior fellow. In the course of my PhD program, I received an MA in Economics at Yale. I was also a junior visiting scholar in 2023 at Nuffield College, University of Oxford.