I am a Ph.D. candidate at Purdue University. I study migration and conflict. 

My research agenda focuses on how external shocks shape political behavior and preferences. In my current central project, I draw theories from social psychology and comparative politics to demonstrate the varying impact of political violence on preferences for migrants. I shed light on how an individual's past experience with civil war shapes their attitudes towards refugees. I show that those individuals who faced displacement or had family members killed during civil war are not more likely than their unaffected counterparts to prefer refugees who are fleeing the similar circumstance of political violence. This has opened up future research projects on the role of political efficacy in shaping relations between refugees and their host communities. My research contributes to our understanding of refugee-host relations and the extant scholarship on the legacy of political violence in post-conflict communities.