Welcome!
I hold a PhD in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University and will join Princeton University as a Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS) Postdoctoral Fellow for the 2026–2027 academic year.
I am a scholar of comparative politics whose research examines historical democratization and state-building, with a regional focus on Latin America. My work is motivated by a broader interest in how political-economic forces shape the institutions and policies central to the functioning of political regimes and states. To provide rigorous evidence on these questions, I conduct archival research to construct original datasets and use quantitative methods to identify causal relationships and evaluate the mechanisms underlying them.
My book manuscript, entitled Tamed Democracy: Officeholding Requirements, Political Selection, and Redistribution during the First Wave, argues that elites across Western Europe and the Americas imposed stringent eligibility requirements for top state positions to mitigate the redistributive potential of suffrage. This research relies on cross-national analyses and within-country studies of Argentina and Switzerland to demonstrate how eligibility requirements for office shape fiscal policy through their effect on political selection.
My research has been supported by the American Political Science Association’s Centennial Center, the APSA Section on Representation and Electoral Systems, the SNF Agora Institute, and the University of Konstanz’s Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality.”