I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Dartmouth College in the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences where I also serve as a manager of the Class of 1964 Policy Research Shop. In 2023, I completed my DPhil dissertation at the University of Oxford in the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR).

My research focuses on the interplay of welfare state institutions and the criminal legal system. My dissertation specifically asked how citizens and policymakers consider tradeoffs between punishment, rehabilitation and social welfare, and how such priorities lead to cross-national and cross-temporal variation in state punitiveness. This work was supported by grants from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy and the Open Philanthropy Project as well as a DPIR Studentship.

My broader research interests include comparative political economy, electoral systems and behaviour, inequality, race and ethnicity, and state capacity. 

Between 2021-2023, I was also a Postgraduate Associate with the Leitner Program on Effective Democratic Governance at Yale University's Jackson School of Global Affairs.