Welcome! I study international and comparative political economy, with a regional focus on Latin America. Broadly, I investigate how individuals, firms, and governments engage with the international system by navigating and contesting tradeoffs between sovereignty and economic development, and how these dynamics reshape domestic political life. I also examine how these pressures generate long-run political legacies, particularly in the wake of international conflict, border changes, and other major external shocks.

My work combines survey experiments, geospatial techniques, and text-based methods to examine how different actors experience and respond to these tradeoffs, from public attitudes toward foreign investment to firm and state strategies and institutional change. Across projects, I focus on how international economic and geopolitical pressures are filtered through domestic political institutions and public opinion.

I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis.