I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where I study American and comparative politics. I am currently on the job market in 2025-2026.

I investigate how institutional design shapes political participation, intergovernmental dynamics, collective action, and sustainability efforts across generations. I bring together causal inference, archival research, fieldwork-based case studies, and formal models to study domestic and Native nations politics in the U.S., with extensions elsewhere in the Arctic and in Oceania.

​My research is published in the Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy and has been generously supported by sources such as the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts and the Pozen Center for Human Rights at the University of Chicago as well as by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Political Science Association, and the the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists. I hold a Master’s in Political Science from the University of Chicago, a Master’s in Politics and Education from Columbia University, and a Bachelor’s in English Literature from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.