Hello, and welcome!

I am an Assistant Professor in the Government Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Previously, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University.

I got my PhD from New York University in 2024. My dissertation received the Dean's Outstanding Dissertation Award at NYU, the Ronald H. Coase Best Dissertation Award from the Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics, and the Best Dissertation Award from the Urban and Local Politics Section of APSA.

My research focuses on American political institutions, bureaucratic politics, and local political economy. I study bureaucratic behavior at the local level in the US: how police officers, teachers, and other public employees respond to and exert political pressure, who selects into these jobs and who leaves, and what that means for accountability. I draw on causal inference, text analysis, administrative records, spatial data, and game theory. My work is published or forthcoming in the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, and Political Analysis.