Hello and Welcome!

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I am an Associate Professor at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and jointly appointed in the Political Science Department at the University of Michigan. I am particularly interested in explaining how the redistribution of political, economic, and social power, including across racial, gender, class, and religious or ethnic lines, is attempted and achieved. My work underscores how war, political violence, great power competition, and transnational diffusion are critical but underappreciated forces shaping redistributive attempts and their outcomes. I explore these questions using primarily quantitative and qualitative methods.

 

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Governing for Revolution, my first book and winner of APSA's Conflict Processes Section Best Book Award, demonstrates that costly wartime redistributive governance by rebel groups is a transnational strategy that traces back to the Chinese Communist Party. My second book (in progress) explores when and how political actors, from rebels to states to empires, undertake redistribution, and identifies great power competition and transnational diffusion as a decisive yet underexamined driver of redistributive attempts' onset and success. Collaborative and solo-authored articles have appeared in or are forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, the Journal of Politics, the European Journal of International Relations, Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Conflict Management and Peace Science, and Research and Politics. My public-facing work has been featured in Foreign Affairs, the Washington Post, Political Violence at a Glance, War on the Rocks, and the Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS). Alongside this research, I served as Interim Director of the International Policy Center at the Ford School during the 2023-2024 academic year, and I am a board member for Correlates of War, Peace Science Society, and Women in Conflict Studies. With Dotan Haim (Florida State) and Mara Revkin (Duke), I am a co-founder of the Multi-Method Conflict Consortium.