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Welcome! I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics & International Relations (DPIR), University of Oxford, and a Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College. Previously, I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Duke University and the London School of Economics (Department of Government). I was also a post-doctoral researcher at the UZH-ETH Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS), and a pre-doctoral visiting fellow at the Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence at Yale University.

My research focuses on the social and institutional implications of violence and conflict, and on avenues to reduce wartime and gender-based violence. Current projects leverage novel data collection and analysis techniques to examine state-led atrocities against civilians during war; attitudes towards the use of force; norms surrounding intimate partner violence; and consequences of activism against gender-based violence. I am also completing a book project that explores the impact of civilian victimization on subsequent patterns of collective action and institutional change. Methodologically, my research straddles multiple levels of analysis from the local to the international and draws on a broad variety of strategies for data collection and analysis. 

My work has been published in, or is conditionally accepted at, the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Journal of Peace Research, among others. It has been funded by organizations such the US National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Swiss Network for International Studies, and the Peace and Recovery  Program of Innovation for Poverty Action. It received the MPSA Best Paper by Emerging Scholar Award and the Prize for Excellence in Applied Development Research (1st prize, young researcher category), among other awards. Please feel free to contact me directly for access to working papers.

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