I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My interests within comparative politics sit at the intersection of institutional change, governance, and contentious politics. Broadly, I study the political geography of administrative reform in subnational state institutions and public goods provision and its consequences for collective action.

My dissertation examines how repertoires and grievances scale (or do not) across institutional targets across space and time; theorizing the implications of localized opportunity structures for opposition coalitions. With a focus on North Africa, I combine statistical analysis of original event and administrative data with historical sociology and other qualitative methods grounded in fieldwork and documentary analysis of Arabic- and French-language sources.

My work has been published in Democratization and World Development; and supported by the NSF-APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG), the Institute for Humane Studies, the Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS), and the Rapoport Family Foundation.

In 2024, I was a CASA II fellow at the Center for Arabic Study Abroad in Amman, Jordan. Prior to my Ph.D., I received my M.A. from Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies.