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I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Stony Brook University. I study political psychology, with a focus on ideology, group identity, public opinion, and political behavior in the Americas.

My dissertation examines how, in Latin America, the most durable mass political identity is left–right ideology, which outlasts unstable parties and leaders and organizes attitudes and behavior, and how the different political identities in the region drive hostility toward the other side. 

I also study how experiences (e.g., violence, climate change, immigration, and corruption) influence people's behavior and opinions. This includes studies of how information about marginalized groups' votes affects sentiment toward them, how facts about immigration change economic worries, how police violence lowers political trust and satisfaction with democracy, and why voters who say they would punish corrupt politicians keep electing them. 

As a quantitative scientist, my research draws primarily on original experimental methods and causal inference methods with available observational data.