I am a third-year PhD Student in Government at Cornell University. I will be a Junior Visiting Scholar at Nuffield College, University of Oxford for the 2024 Hilary and Trinity terms, where my visit is supported by a Cornell-Oxford Brettschneider exchange.

My research focuses on questions surrounding democratic backsliding, civil society, and political communication, with a regional focus in East-Central Europe. I use a variety of methods including surveys, qualitative interviews, archival research, and observational causal inference techniques. My work is forthcoming in Perspectives on Politics.