Welcome! I am a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Colorado at Boulder in the Department of Political Science. I'm also affiliated with CU's Institute of Behavioral Science. I specialize in comparative politics and methodology. On this website you can find my publications, CV, and contact info. 

My current research interests include:

• The effect of extreme weather on vulnerable populations in Latin America

• comparing how countries respond to different disasters and testing whether there is a way to tell which countries are doing a good job at recovery (and which aren't)

• whether or not citizens can accurately judge whether their government is managing recovery from disasters well or not, and what political action (or inaction) they take based on this assessment

• whether anti-Indigenous rhetoric in Latin America increases political violence