I am an Assistant Professor, tenure track, in the Department of Political Science at NYU Abu Dhabi. I received my Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University in June 2020 and was a postdoctoral research associate at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University.

My research focuses on state building, economic development, and the politics of religion, with a regional focus on the Middle East and North Africa and has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, International Organization, Terrorism and Political Violence, and International Studies Quarterly.

From 2010 until 2014, I taught in the Social Sciences Department at the United States Military Academy and worked in the Combating Terrorism Center. Prior to West Point, I completed a Master's degree in International Affairs at Columbia University’s School of International and Political Affairs, and received a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Tufts University.