I am a Senior Researcher at Fors Marsh. Prior to joining FMG, I was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Emory University. I was a 2017-2019 Moore/Sloan & WRF Innovation in Data Science Postdoctoral Fellow working with Noah Smith and Michael McCann.

My research focuses on the causes, nature, and outcomes of political violence, insecurity of minority groups, state repression, and forms of resistance. I have a particular interest (both theory and measurement) in the role of ideational factors in political violence processes. My substantive research has been published in the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, and the Journal of Peace Research, among other outlets, while my methodological work has been published in the Journal of Politics, Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, the British Journal of Political Science and the Harvard Data Science Review, along with other outlets. My research has received funding from a variety of sources, including the National Science Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation. My work has won awards for both qualitative (APSA’s Alexander George Best Article Award — 2021) and quantitive (Nils Petter Gleditsch Journal of Peace Research Article of the Year Award —2019, with Mike Gabbay and Mohammed Hafez) research approaches. I founded and co-direct the O/R Lab at Emory University; you can read about our pedagogical approach here.

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I’m dyslexic! Spelling errors abound.

I am also an athlete. I competed at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials (rowing - ltw W2x) and ran the 2018 Boston Marathon.

Outside of research and training, I can be found galavanting around mountains or forests, or in boats of one sort or another (pictures).