Hello! I am an Assistant Professor of Politics at Pomona College, where my teaching and research portfolios are broadly within the subfield of comparative politics. Prior to joining Pomona, I was a Consortium for Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow at Swarthmore College, and a postdoctoral fellow with the Penn Social Science and Policy Forum at the University of Pennsylvania. I received my Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Masters in Public Policy from the (then) Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a B.A. in History from Howard University.
My research focuses on how migration reshapes the dynamics of both social and political citizenship. Through my work with the Transnational Studies Initiative at Harvard University, I have coauthored multiple articles and a book, Transnational Social Protection: Social Welfare Across National Borders (Oxford University Press, 2023), that explore the transnational and subnational dimensions of social welfare policy in a world of mass migration. My current solo project explores the degree to which pathways to civic participation are created, maintained, or closed off for immigrants in new destination countries, places where immigration is a relatively recent phenomenon. This work has received support from the Fulbright-Schuman program, a Mellon/ACLS fellowship, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University, the Center for International Studies at MIT, and a Hirsch Fellowship through Pomona College. Multiple papers and a book manuscript are currently in development or under review, and a book chapter related to this work was published as part of an edited volume with Temple University Press. You can read more about my research here.
My teaching interests reflect my research agenda. At Pomona, in addition to Intro to Comparative, I have taught courses on European politics, comparative social policy, social movements, and democratic backsliding. I have also taught sections of ID1, Pomona’s writing-intensive course for first-year students. In 2021, I won a Wig Distinguished Professor award for excellence in teaching, the College’s highest honor for faculty. You can read more about my teaching here.