Papers

Transportation costs and colonial onset (WP) - With Jan Pierskalla and Maryam Alum.

Early statehood and support for autocratic rule (CPS) - with Vladimir Chlouba and Daniel Smith.

Dissertation: my dissertation asks how citizens can make claims of their elected officials when elections do not matter. I use translated social media data, events data, and network analysis to examine how Tanzanians can use online forms of media to replicate quotidian interactions and how interest actors play a role in highly localized politics.

Courses taught and designed

Political Analysis II - an applied statistical methods course taught for undergraduate students to work with real data and produce working code and analysis that they then present.

Comparative Political Behavior - designed as a 200 level course but could be modified for 400 level. This course introduces comparative political behavior, focusing on broad themes, voting behavior, and accountability