research
IN PROGRESS
Dissertation Prospectus:
Forgotten Institutions: Indirect roles in drought & war.
Quantitative analysis investigating how institutions condition violent interstate & intrastate conflict under drought using the AfroGrid dataset and the Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database (TFDD).
Defended & passed April 2025.
Additional Work:
Another Russia: Elite group attitudes as signals of divergence in autocratic politics.
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Quantitative longitudinal analysis of differing Russian elite attitudes of the Ukraine, NATO, & EU using the Survey of Russian Elites (SRE) dataset.
Project was accepted for conference presentations in 2023 & 2024.
From the Other Side of the Border: Mexican Public Attitudes of American Politics.
Co-authors: Sergio Wals & Kianna Moore
Early stages of quantitative analysis & drafting manuscripts (in English & Spanish). We ask if – and how – Mexican partisanship and institutions longitudinally frame public attitudes (e.g., migration) as American presidents are elected, using five nationally representative surveys from 2003-2024.
Nebraska Water Allocation Legislation: Narrative Policy Framework Analyses, 1971-2023.
Co-authors: Sarah Michaels & Taylor Gold
Seeking to trace how historical political narratives about water allocation in NE affected legislative outcomes.
Early stages of quantitative and qualitative data collection.
Grants, Fellowships, & Scholarships
EMPIRICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THEORETICAL MODELS (EITM), ICPSR Scholarship Recipient
| 2025, $4,375
National Science Foundation funds first- and second-session tuition fees for the University of Michigan’s Interuniversity Consortium for Political & Social Research’s quantitative statistics, mathematics, and computing summer program. Earned two competitive course certifications & networked with peers and career academics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE SUMMER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP, Research Fellow
| 06-08/2025, $2,000
Researched data & studied at ICPSR to directly support the quantitative chapter of my dissertation.
McKELVIE SCHOLARSHIP, Graduate Recipient
| 2025-26 Academic Year, $3,745
Fund to aid government- and public service-interested careers.
Past awards:
| 2024-25 Academic Year, $5,750
| 2023-24 Academic Year, $2,500
| 2022-23 Academic Year, $4,000
KIECHEL FELLOWSHIP, Research Fellow
| 06-08/2022, $2,000
Researched Russian elite perceptions of the Ukraine and Belarus using the SRE.